Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.

Time cures you first, and then it kills you.

Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work?

The room looks as if a giant dog after a large lunch of food, socks, paints, trousers and pencils, walked into that room and vomited everywhere.

Sometimes history cleaves and for one helpless moment stands still like the pause when the ax splits a log and the two halves rest on end waiting to fall.

I almost never respect men. They're like flowers -- all show, a lot of color and lust. You pick them and throw them on the ground.

We are bodies, sometimes with dreams and always with desires.

She never says gracias because life is made of survival not grace, she says, and servants are paid to bring what they're asked.

Why does a person spend money on a stamp to spout bile at a stranger?

The giant beech next door intends to shiver off every hair of its pelt.

...when the public nerve is aroused, the most impressive capacity of man is his skill for lying.

Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.

Don't let yourself get yourself down

Heaven is a wonderful place and the benefits for the believer are out of this world!

Tomorrow’s victory is today’s practice.

He's wrong he's so he's so wrong he's more wrong than an upside-down rainbow.

Quart of whiskey a day for months working hard on a long poem. Wife hiding bottles, myself hiding bottles. Murderous and suicidal. Many hospitalizations, many alibis.

Death is an ascension to a better library.

All I could think about was him, and how much I wanted this, and how incredibly lucky I was to get it, and how tight I was going to hold onto it.

It's tremendous what can happen when suddenly you make an emotional connection.

I love the whole makeup of men - that they never mature and are always just boys.