I knew one thing: as soon as anyone said you didn't need a gun, you'd better take one along that worked.

There was a sad fellow over on a bar stool talking to the bartender, who was polishing a glass and listening with that plastic smile people wear when they are trying not to scream.

I had a funny feeling as I saw the house disappear, as though I had written a poem and it was very good and I had lost it and would never remember it again.

Most people go through life using up half their energy trying to protect a dignity they never had

Technique alone is never enough. You have to have passion. Technique alone is just an embroidered potholder.

A check girl in peach-bloom Chinese pajamas came over to take my hat and disapprove of my clothes. She had eyes like strange sins.

There are no vital and significant forms of art; there is only art, and precious little of that.