Just tell 'em you're gonna soak the fat boys and forget the rest of the tax stuff...Willie, make 'em cry, make 'em laugh, make 'em mad, even mad at you. Stir them up and they'll love it and come back for more, but, for heaven's sakes, don't try to improve their minds.

There is nothing more alone than being in a car at night in the rain.

They say you are not you except in terms of relation to other people. If there weren't any other people there wouldn't be any you because what you do, which is what you are, only has meaning in relation to other people.

What if angry vectors veer Round your sleeping head, and form. There's never need to fear Violence of the poor world's abstract storm.

Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. They're inexpensive and easy to procure.

If you are an idealist, it does not matter what you do or what goes on around you because it isn't real anyway.

Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money.