Time is but a phantom dagger That motion lifts to slay itself.

For me, poetry is an impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

H. L. Mencken suffers from the hallucination that he is H. L. Mencken - there is no cure for a disease of that magnitude.

Words are soldiers of fortune hired by different ideas.

Reality is a formless lure, And only when we know this Do we dare to be unreal.

Thank you for inviting me to your house, but I prefer to dine in the Greek restaurant at Wabash Avenue and 12th Street where I will be limited to finding dead flies in my soup.

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

There's a lot more to ridin' a horse than just sittin' in the saddle and lettin' yer feet hang down.

I have tried to be very rational, although I know love and hate are not rational and explained feelings.

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

If English money was of the same value then as before, Hamburgh money must have risen in value. But where is the proof of this?

You can't get anywhere flying under the radar.

There was a cultural war going on, the '60s was going on. All the film critics were square.

At the heart of the fractured soul of America is the frightening chasm of race.

Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.

I don't read novels that are looking to convince me of anything. I believe that literature needs to be a machine of illusions.

To be alone by being part of the universe-fitting in completely to an environment of woods and silence and peace. Everything you do becomes a unity and a prayer. Unity within and without.