I've learned to feel good when I feel good.it's better to be driven around in a red porschethan to ownone. the luck of the fool is inviolate.

hate contains truth. beauty is a facade.

waitingin a life full of little storiesfor a death to come

it's so easy to be a poetand so hard to be a man.

I wait on my fix:I am a poetry junkie.

it's good to have things done withwhen they don't workit's also good not to hateor even forgetthe person you've failed with.

I like to prowl ordinary placesand taste the people-from a distance.

I like to prowl ordinary places.I feel sorry for us all or glad for us allcaught alive togetherand awkward in that way.there's nothing better than the jokeof usthe seriousness of usthe dullness of us

for meobedience to another is the decayof self

love needs too much help, he said.hate takes care of itself.

the lies of centuries, the lies of love, the lies of Socrates and Blake and Christwill be your bedmates and tombstonesin a death that will never end.

People fear nothing as much as boredom and they will do unimaginable things to make it go away.

If a tree dies, plant another in its place.

I was always the smallest guy on the field.

The job of the director is to suggest two plus two. Let the viewer say four.

I'd love to talk to Joaquin Phoenix because he's a very private guy. Also, he's creating a new kind of sexy leading man. To me, his face is new and might be legendary someday.

You cannot really conceive of how insulting it is to Native Americans to be told they were discovered.

If you are lucky enough to be a success, by all means enjoy the applause and the adulation of the public. But never, never believe it.

Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, but let it be clear we maintain this strength in the hope it will never be used.

My mother always told me before shows to stand up and show them whose little boy you are.

Of course, literature is the only spiritual and humane career. Even painting tends to dumness, and music turns people erotic, whereas the more you write the nicer you become.