When I get sent manuscripts from aspiring poets, I do one of two things: if there is no stamped self-addressed envelope, I throw it into the bin.-If there is, I write and tell them to f**k off.

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.'

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

He married a woman to stop her getting away Now she's there all day.

Novels are about other people and poems are about yourself.

One of the quainter quirks of life is that we shall never know who dies on the dame day as we do ourselves.

Sex means nothing--just the moment of ecstasy, that flares and dies in minutes.