“if you get married they think you'refinishedand if you are without a woman they think you'reincomplete.”

“They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them.”

“if you think they didn't go crazy in tiny rooms just like you're doing now without women without food without hope then you're not ready. ”

“I can never drive my car over a bridge without thinking of suicide.I can never look at a lake or an ocean without thinking of suicide.”

“To me, nudity is a joke. I don't think nude people are very attractive at all. I like my women fully clothed. I like to imagine what might be under there. It might not be the standard thing. Imagine, stripping a woman down, and she has a body like a little submarine. With periscope, propellers, torpedoes. That would be the one for me. I'd marry her right off and be faithful to the end.”

“I felt like crying but nothing came out. it was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can't feel any worse. I think you know it. I think everybody knows it now and then. but I think I have known it pretty often, too often.”

“I do think that poetry is important though, if you don’t strive at it, if you don’t fill it full of stars and falseness.”