By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

My goal in life is to unite my avocation with my vocation, As my two eyes make one in sight.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

I cut my own hair. I got sick of barbers because they talk too much. And too much of their talk was about my hair coming out.

Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away / You'd think the inner dome of heaven had fallen.

Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose, unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction.