The connection was so bad, and I couldn’t talk at all during most of the call. How terrible it is when you say I love you and the person at the other….

Each of his phrases was rather like a little ancient island, inundated by a miniature sea of whiskey..

After I go out this door, I may only exist in the minds of all my acquaintances…I may be an orange peel..

You’d better get busy, though, buddy. The goddam sands run out on you every time You turn around. I know what I’m talking about. You’re lucky if you ….

He was one of those guys that think they're being a pansy if they don't break around forty of your fingers when they shake hands with you. God I hate….

If you're a poet, you do something beautiful. I mean, you're supposed to leave something beautiful after you get off the page and everything. The one….

I didn't want any degrees if all the ill-read literates and radio announcers and pedagogical dummies I knew had them by the peck..

I was six when I saw that everything was God, and my hair stood up, and all, Teddy said. It was on a Sunday, I remember. My sister was a tiny child t….

How that name comes up. Mixing memory and desire.

Your heart, Bessie, is an autumn garage..

I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, b….

Were most of your stars out? Were you busy writing your heart out?.

Keep me up till five because all your stars are out, and for no other reason…Oh dare to do it Buddy! Trust your heart. You’re a deserving craftsman. ….

It's full of phonies, and all you do is study so that you can learn enough to be smart enough to be able to buy a goddam Cadillac some day, and you h….

Take most people, they are crazy about cars. They worry if they get a little scratch on them, they are always talking about have many miles they get ….

I never seem to have anything that if I lost it I'd care too much about..

He was the tallest, thinnest, weariest boy I had ever seen in my life. He was brilliant. He had gorgeous brown eyes, and he had only two suits. He wa….

I prayed for the city to be cleared of people, for the gift of being alone—a-l-o-n-e: which is the one New York prayer that rarely gets lost or delay….

But what I mean is, lots of time you don’t know what interests you most till you start talking about something that doesn’t interest you most. I mean….

You asked me how to get out of the finite dimensions when I feel like it. I certainly don't use logic when I do it. Logic's the first thing you have ….

While I was walking I passed these two guys that were unloading this big Christmas tree off a truck. One guy, kept saying to the other guy, 'Hold the….