“In the black chaos where the seas and the skies become confused let the projectors blow their white trumpets of silence("Roundness")”

“The modesty of the athletic body which is contented with its perfection You could limit your human existence to filling your shape with a muscle("Tennis")”

“Art has a voice - let it speak.”

“NO MUSE IS GOOD MUSETo be an Artist you need talent, as well as a wifewho washes the socks and the children,and returns phone calls and library books and types.In other words, the reason there are so many moreMen Geniuses than Women Geniuses is not Genius.It is because Hemingway never joined the P.T.A.And Arthur Rubinstein ignored Halloween.Do you think Portnoy's creator sits through children's theatermatinees--on Saturdays?Or that Norman Mailer faced 'driver's ed' failure,chicken pox or chipped teeth?Fitzgerald's night was so tender because the fenderhis teen-ager dented happened when Papa was at a story conference.Since Picasso does the painting, Mrs. Picasso did the toilet training.And if Saul Bellow, National Book Award winner, invited thirty-threefor Thanksgiving Day dinner, I'll bet he had help.I'm sure Henry Moore was never a Cub Scout leader,and Leonard Bernstein never instructed a tricyclerOn becoming a bicycler just before he conducted.Tell me again my anatomy is not necessarily my destiny,tell me my hang-up is a personal and not a universal quandary,and I'll tell you no muse is a good museunless she also helps with the laundry.”

“Jade is my everything: my wings, my roots, my sky. I am in love with her.And she tried to kill me.Now that is some messed up shit right now.”

“People can change... no matter where they come from, no matter where they think they ought to go, people can make their own way.”

“How can you ask me when i want to get married when you have yet to ask me if i will marry you?”