If only you’d remember before ever you sit down to write that you’ve been a reader long before you were ever a writer. You simply fix that fact in yo….

I'm one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes..

I know. I'm very hard to talk to. I realize that..

She was terrific to hold hands with. Most girls if you hold hands with them, their goddam hand dies on you, or else they think they have to keep movi….

I think if you don't really like a girl, you shouldn't horse around with her at all, and if you do like her, then you're supposed to like her face, a….

Listen, if you're not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh..

I mean they don't seem able to love us just the way we are. They don't seem able to love us unless they can keep changing us a little bit. They love ….

who wants flowers when youre dead? nobody..

probably for every man there is at least one city that sooner or later turns into a girl. how well or how badly the man actually knew the girl doesn’….

But I was afraid of the questions (much more than the accusations) you might both put to me..

Then again you may pick up just enough education to hate people who say, 'It's a secret between he and I.'.

You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it..

People never notice anything..

I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. I'm sick of myself and everybody else that wants to make some kind of a splash..

I just never felt so fantastically rocky in my entire life..

Almost every time somebody gives me a present, it ends up making me sad..

You can't argue with someone who believes, or just passionately suspects, that the poet's function is not to write what he must write but, rather, to….

I drew laughing, high-breasted girls aquaplaning without a care in the world, as a result of being amply protected against such national evils as ble….

The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid..

That's the whole trouble. You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't any..

It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to..