“Many a good man has been put under the bridge by a woman.”

“What a woman wants is a reaction. What a man wants is a woman.”

“He asked, "What makes a man a writer?" "Well," I said, "it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge.”

“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 loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.”

“Sweet Christ, you must know that a man will go further for any poem than for any woman ever born.”

“but isn't there alwaysone good thingto look back on?think ofhow many cups of coffee wedrank together.”