“There is milk? What luxury!”

“For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.”

“Thou askest me to take things seriously? After what thou didst last night? When thou needest to kill a man and instead did what you did? You were supposed to kill one, not make one! When we have just seen the sky full of airplanes of a quantity to kill us back to our grandfathers and forward to all unborn grandsons including all cats, goats and bedbugs. Airplanes making a noise to curdle the milk in your mother's breasts as they pass over darkening the sky and roaring like lions and you ask me to take things seriously. I take them too seriously already.”

“So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.”

“What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.”

“You should only read what is truly good or what is frankly bad.”

“Now is no time to think of what you do not have.Think of what you can do with that there is”