Loss is not as bad as wanting more.
I think that what happens in my poetic work in the future will depend on my being knocked in the face, and thrown flat, and given cancer, and all kinds of other things short of senile dementia.
Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made.
The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.
So if I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise and blame because praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.
We must travel in the direction of our fear.
Two daiquiris withdrew into a corner of a gorgeous room and one told the other a lie.
You're gonna laugh when I tell you this, man, but I'm starting to enjoy Eminem.
I don't mind being regarded as perverted and unnatural, but I would die if people thought I was a Democrat.
I love life too much to be bitter.
We can't say that when x happens we get a mass extinction. To the extent we understand mass extinction, one has been caused by glaciation event, one has been caused by a massive climate change, and one has been caused by an asteroid. These events turn out to have no precedent.