“Those letters under the doorA new lifeThe war at a distanceand my drinking glass that smokesA brightness crowns the universe("Two Poems")”
“I clink my glass against hers and we drink without toasting. The aged cognac tastes like history. Not the kind taught in schools, full of wars and politics and cultural revolution - the smaller, softer history of a world with only two people in it.”
“War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.”
“Those that despise peace and admire war are crushed under the boots of the war!”
“There's two kinds of women--those you write poems about and those you don't.”
“do not despair when you are down and under i will crown with my everlasting love”