Love is the magician that pulls him out of his own hat.

Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.

The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links.

Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.

Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.

A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is the object of his love from him.

Bad writing is not easier than good writing. It's just as hard to make a toilet seat as it is a castle window. Only the view is different.

The movies are an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming cultured people.

Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the last place where I hear women's hair rhapsodically described, women's faces acclaimed in odelike language.

I'll tell you a secret. We live in a mad and inspiring world.

Life reality tells us that to grow physically, you first need to grow inwardly

A society that lives by worldly principles is slowly moving towards a global crisis in all areas

It begins with absence and desire. It begins with blood and fear. It begins with a discovery of witches.

I always wanted to be some kind of writer - I wrote plays and songs and "books" before I realized living and breathing people still wrote poems.

No doubt about it: error is the rule, truth is the accident of error.

If the devil tells you something is too fearful to look at, look at it. If he says something is too terrible to hear, hear it. If you think some truth unbearable, bear it.

Hillary Clinton is going to make sure that Americans are safe at home and abroad.

Have I done more for some today ? Than some have done for me ? If a person can answer yes at the end of a day, then that person has had a good day.

In most states you can get a driver's license when you're sixteen years old, which made a lot of sense to me when I was sixteen years old but now seems insane.

My family was a bunch of drunks. When I was six I came up missing, they put my picture on a bottle of scotch.