Patriarchal Poetry makes mistakes.

Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.

You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.

You are all a lost generation.

America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.

Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.

What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about it if I like or anything if I like but not there, there is no there there.

That is what you are. That's what you all are...All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation.

My love is like a magical dancing spirit. It is mighty but affable

Every atom in me feels composed of lead. This is what dying is: a pull to the ground.

I feel that you always pay when you are a child.

I don't go to church regularly. I wouldn't say I was religious, but more spiritual.

To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.

Compromise is low class. I don't have anything against the poor, but being low class is the root of all evil

Anything that doesn't make sense, I don't want to give too much of my brain to.

The wisdom of our parents, grandparents, ancestors. In each individual life, it seems, we must first reject that wisdom, then later come to appreciate it.

If you're a fiction writer, though, I can tell you how to let people talk through you. Listen. Just be quiet, and listen. Let the character talk. Don't censor, don't control. Listen, and write.

The determination of life insurance salesmen to succeed has made life pretty soft for widows.