I dabbled in verse and it became my life

On the stem of memory imaginations blossom.

We are not alone in our loneliness, others have been here and known griefs we thought our special own.

There is something wrong with a work of art if it can be understood by a policeman.

God cannot catch us. Unless we stay in the unconscious room. Of our hearts.

A sweeping statement is the only statement worth listening to. The critic without faith gives balanced opinions, usually about second-rate writers.

Macmillan's rejection had left him very downcast... Patrick Swift was invited to peruse the contents and decided that the poems should be published.

It often occurs to me that we love most what makes us miserable. In my opinion the damned are damned because they enjoy being damned.

A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.

Malice is only another name for mediocrity.

What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.

a woman will tell youevery home she has ever inhabitedhas been broken intostarting with her body

Chicks dig historians.

I'm Jewish. I don't work out. If God had wanted us to bend over he would have put diamonds on the floor.

In the city, we work until quitting time. On the farm, we work until the job is finished.

I don’t really mean what I’m saying.

However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.

The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the moods of people, and his tact in dealing with them.

Unlimited activity, of whatever kind, must end in bankruptcy.

But I am weirdly healthy, so I don’t beat myself up about it—it wouldn’t help, and I don’t want to pass that on to my girls.

The problem is that nowadays, with so much information flying around, it is almost impossible to remember anything you saw just a week ago, never mind three years ago!