They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.

I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.

Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do.

The people that I liked and had not met went to the big cafes because they were lost in them and no one noticed them and they could be alone in them and be together.

I belong to this notebook and this pencil.

Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.

We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.

In those days, there was no money to buy books.

For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.

People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

I had never known any man to die while speaking in terza-rima

The human mind is a brilliant thing. Each person is capable of so much more than they give themselves credit for. I am only one mind amongst billions, though I still wish for my voice to be heard.

Be an artist in everything you do.

If you eat enough books, you start pooping out words.

I'm all about being prudent. And I've started to appreciate experiences more than actual objects.

Tis hard to be wretched, but worse to be knowne so.

Mother, may I go and maffick, Tear around and hinder traffic?

Religion is pointing toward the moon

What worse can happen to a man than to have been born? It's like asking a man who is drowning whether he is not afraid of getting wet.

I cannot force a design; I do not see this process as being under my conscious control.

You need to express things stronger today, more so than in the Baroque time, and you need to expand the expressiveness of the instrument.