“one can never be sure whether it's good poetry or bad acid”

“of one hundred movies there's one that is fair, one that's good and ninety eight that are very bad. most movies start badly and steadily get worse”

“Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.”

“Even the stove and the refrigerator looked human, I mean good human - they seemed to have arms and voices and they said, hang around, kid, it's good here, it can be very good here.”

“Bad taste makes more millionaires than good taste.”

“bad writing's like bad women: there's just not much you can do about it”

“I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one.”