“I've had it with these cheap sons of bitches who claim they love poetry but never buy a book.”

“I write for one and only one purpose, to overcome the invincible ignorance of the traduced heart. […] I wish to speak to and for those who have had enough of the Social Lie, the Economics of Mass Murder, the Sexual Hoax, and the Domestication of Conspicuous Consumption.”

“The mature man lives quietly, does good privately, takes responsibility for his actions, treats others with friendliness and courtesy, finds mischief boring and avoids it. Without the hidden conspiracy of goodwill, society would not endure an hour.”

“Bohemia is a commune in which the Revolution is over and everyone is a member of the aristocracy”

“I want to buy me a hat with a golden feather & a book with the confessions of God in it”

“Beyond the Wild Wood comes the Wild World," said the Rat. "And that's something that doesn't matter, either to you or to me. I've never been there, and I'm never going, nor you either, if you've got any sense at all.”

“Maybe poetry took the life out of both of them,Idea and friendship.”