I swore on my knees at the altar where you held me that I would kill you. It was an oath you made me make in my own blood. And now I have returned to give you the promised blade.

And the General regrets the night.

The other side of the "sacred" is the sight of your beloved in the underworld, dripping with maggots.

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do.

A person becomes a real individual when he has set and accurately defined his goal

First bathrooms, now cars. At least people are wearing their seat belts.

There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.

What writes worse than a Theodore Dreiser? ... Two Theodore Dreisers.

You stay out here a little while, an' if you smell any roses, you come let me smell, too.

Life would die without poets, and democracy must have its spellbinders.

I’m the bomb like tick tick.

Suicide is part murder, revenge on those who hurt you, just as murder is part suicide, for a murderer knows he risks losing his life.