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

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.

If you tell a novelist, 'Life's not like that', he has to do something about it. The poet simply replies, 'No, but I am.'

I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife.

Depression is to me as daffodils were to Wordsworth.

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.

Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.