The old days are dead and gone days. For what I did in the past I have been punished. I have been cured.

It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen.

We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.

It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil.

Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive.

To devastate is easier and more spectacular than to create.

I was always on my oddy knocky.

When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.

You got shook and shook till there was nothing left. You lost your name and your body and your self and you just didn't care.

You have no cause to grumble boy. You made your choice and all this is a consequence of your choice. Whatever now ensues is what you yourself have chosen.

Well, everything's a lesson, isn't it? Learning all the time, as you could say.

You don’t make art out of good intentions.

Her occupation was the worst that anyone could think of. No guest in the park had to think of it because, unlike the wandering dwarf women, her job had no bearing on paper.

You don't learn to hold your own by standing on guard but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself.

There is no excuse for deceiving children. And when, as must happen in conventional families, they find that their parents have lied, they lose confidence in them and feel justified in lying to them.

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

The bottom line is very simple. You negotiate on this, they will up the ante for the debt ceiling.

There's nothing wrong with making love with the light on. Just make sure the car door is closed.

If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party; and so soon as he does that, he is lost as a poet.

I'm just one of those people that if I sit down to watch a horror film, I put my hands over my face and I cry a lot and I don't see half of the film because I'm too upset.

There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.