As you tumble to the ground, pick me up on your way down.
I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife.
I have no enemies. But my friends don't like me.
How little our careers express what lies in us, and yet how much time they take up. It's sad, really.
Poetry should begin with emotion in the poet, and end with the same emotion in the reader. The poem is simply the instrument of transferance
I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.
Sexual intercourse began in 1963. . . Between the end of the Chatterley ban and the Beatles first LP
I think he intends to run for president. . . I think Senator McCain cares about the opinions of New Hampshire voters.
I am from Brooklyn, NY, so we could not have many pets, but I always had at least two dogs.
My greatest political asset, which professional politicians fear, is my mouth, out of which come all kinds of things one shouldn't always discuss for reasons of political expediency.
You have to eat right. That does not mean that I don't drink Cuban coffee. That does not mean that I do not have two cigarettes a day - that's what I'm down to. I drink wine - you know, I'm normal. But I do eat well.