I love you. I love you, but I’m turning to my verses and my heart is closing like a fist.

O my enormous piano, you are not like being outdoors

oh god it’s wonderful to get out of bed and drink too much coffee and smoke too many cigarettes and love you so much

I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love.

Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern.

the only truth is face to face, the poem whose words become your mouth and dying in black and white we fight for what we love, not are

Grace / to be born and live as variously as possible

And always embrace things, people earth sky stars, as I do, freely and with the appropriate sense of space.

Oh! kangaroos, sequins, chocolate sodas! / You really are beautiful! Pearls, / harmonicas, jujubes, aspirins!

I don't think I want to win anything I think I want to die unadorned.

And don't worry about your lineage poetic or natural.

Don’t wait until Christmas to show love. You never know those who will breathe their last breath before the sacred season.

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.

Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.

The human brain can soften as a result of incessant listening to music with an intent to commit prose.

Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.

Research is of considerable importance in certain fields, such as science and history.

All papas and mammas have exactly that sort of sight which distinguishes objects at a distance clearly, while they need spectacles to see those under their very noses.

Everything is banal in experience, fleeting in duration, sordid in content; in all respects the same today as generations now dead and buried have found it to be.

There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political establishment.

What we need is an entrepreneurial society in which innovation and entrepreneurship are normal, steady and continuous.