“I am awaitingperpetually and forevera renaissance of wonder”

“I am waiting for the war to be fought which will make the world safe for anarchy”

“It was a face which darkness could kill in an instant a face as easily hurt by laughter or light 'We think differently at night' she told me oncelying back languidly And she would quote Cocteau'I feel there is an angel in me' she'd say 'whom I am constantly shocking' Then she would smile and look away light a cigarette for me sigh and riseand stretch her sweet anatomy let fall a stocking”

“I feel there is an angel in me' she'd say 'whom I amconstantly shocking”

“Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back.”

“I have seen giraffes in junglejimstheir necks like lovewound around the iron circumstances of the world.”

“I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away.”