I do not care to be esthetically tickled in a fancy theater surrounded by an audience drenched in the confident perfume of culture. I can't afford it.

All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds.

If you will die for me, I will die for you and our graves will be like two lovers washing their clothes together in a laundromat If you will bring the soap I will bring the bleach.

I don't want my daughter to be educated. I think women should just be decorative.

The sun was like a huge 50-cent piece that someone had poured kerosene on and then had lit with a match, and said, "Here, hold this while I go get a newspaper," and put the coin in my hand, but never came back.

I’ll affect you slowly as if you were having a picnic in a dream. There will be no ants. It won’t rain.

I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it.