The chromatic scale is what you use to give the effect of drinking a quinine martini and having an enema simultaneously.

I like spaghetti because you don't have to take your eyes off the book to pick about among it, it's all the same.

I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.

The only way to eliminate unemployment is to eliminate unemployment benefits.

Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself.

A good meal can somewhat repair / The eatings of slight love

Here silence stands Like heat. Here leaves unnoticed thicken, Hidden weeds flower, neglected waters quicken, Luminously-peopled air ascends; And past the poppies bluish neutral distance Ends the land suddenly beyond a beach Of shapes and shingle. Here is unfenced existence: Facing the sun, untalkative, out of reach.