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

“We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.”

“I once started outto walk around the worldbut ended up in Brooklyn,that Bridge was too much for me.”

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

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

“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.”

“See it was like this when we waltz into this place.A couple of papish cats is doing an Aztec two-stepAnd I says Dad let's cutbut then this dame comes up behind me see and says you and me could really existWow I says Only the next day she has bad teeth and really hates poetry.”