“Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.”

“ The best car safety device is a rear view mirror with a cop in it. ”

“I'm always looking for meaningful one-night stands”

“...when dragged into prominence by half poets, the result is not poetry, nor till the poets among us can be "literalists of the imagination" --above insolence and triviality and can present for inspection, "imaginary gardens with real toads in them," shall we have it.”

“She would try to live life one day at a time, like an alcoholic--drink, don't drink, drink. Perhaps she should take drugs.”

“I am hard to disgust, but a pretentious poet can do it”

“Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind,because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science.”