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

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.

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.

That's not a run in your stocking, it's a hand on your leg.

You can be a small element in a corporate system serving your boss all your life and you will retire unsatisfied with your way of living

[It] is well and good when our convictions are based upon the “Thou shalts” and the “Thou shalt nots” of Scripture rather than our own ideas.

The universe was alive with staccato radio chatter and art and curiosity and wonder and change.

You don't stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing.

I love being a performer. It's like a hole that never closes. It's something in you that never dies.

Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.

You aren't nearly through this adventure yet.

What about Tom Jones? He's made a million and he's a bloody awful singer.

To make a war, sometimes it is necessary that everyone guess wrong.

When enlightened people are so poor that they cannot help others, if they speak a word to awaken the confused or to resolve a problem, there is also boundless merit in that.