The ultimate acting is to destroy yourself.

The truth is, I can never die. For I will be in everything and see you in everything and watch over you. I am your reaction in the water of a mountain lake

I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink.

One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.

Put a bird cage near the window so that the bird can see the sky? It's much better to look than not to, even if it hurts.

I actually get venereal disease more often than most people catch colds.

You leap over the wall of one ghetto and find yourself in another ghetto.

Once, I took a taxi. I hate those limousines. They stink and their drivers have been driving dead people to the cemeteries.

I sell myself for the highest price. Exactly like a prostitute. There is no difference.

You don't need a framework. You need a painting, not a frame.

Sometimes my heart hurts so much, I beat it with my fists. I try to run. But you cannot run from this. It waits for you. Even when you think you have escaped it, it is there.

When i tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.

Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

The Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.

I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

It used to be that I was always paranoid or a loser or something so there's usually something that you seem to associate yourself with at one time or another.

Who could believe in the prophecies ... that the world would end this summer, while one milkweed with faith matured its seeds.

Leo Connellan has retained his soul and voice in Provincetown and Other Poems.

Growing and decaying vegetation in this land are responsible for 93 percent of the oxides of nitrogen.

Sweetheart, do not love too long: I loved long and long, And grew to be out of fashion Like an old song.