And one has eaten and one walks, past the magazines with nudes and the posters for bullfight and the Manhattan Storage Warehouse, which they'll soon tear down.

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.

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

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.

I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness - a real thorough-going illness.

Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings Conquer all mysteries by rule and line Empty the haunted air the gnomed mine -Unweave a rainbow.

The demands of internal growth are incomparably more important to us...than the need for any external expansion of our power.

The more time we spend with Mother nature the more we fall in love with her.

I've had six or eight hookers in my life. I never woke up the next day thinking man I'm glad I got a hooker last night.

Man is not by nature a tyrant, but becomes a tyrant by power conferred on him.

I've met people who are baffled by children, as though they were never children themselves.

If people don't read, that's their choice; a lifelong book habit may itself be some sort of affliction.

Being hungover is like winning the lottery, only they pay you in regret.

Scars remind me of just how far that I've come.