Occupation: Writer Birth: January 1, 1919 Death: January 27, 2010
Poets are always taking the weather so personally..
It's everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so - I don't know - not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and me….
His eldest sister (who modestly prefers to be identified here as a Tuckahoe homemaker) has asked me to describe him as looking like 'the blue-eyed Je….
He seemed unaware of the messiness of the arrangement..
If sentiment doesn't ultimately make fibbers of some people, their natural abominable memories almost certainly will..
I'm up to my ears in unwritten words..
People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you're not..
Then I’d throw my automatic down the elevator shaft-after I’d wiped off all the fingerprints and all. Then I’d crawl back up to my room and call up J….
Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody..
I don't even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it..
It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true. People always think something's all true..
If a body catch a body coming through the rye..
And the old horror of being a professional writer, and the usual stench of words that goes with it, is begining to drive me out of my seat. (Buddy).
It isn't very serious, I have this tiny little tumor on the brain..
Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by ….
Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules..
I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you happy..
I have a feeling that you're riding for some kind of a terrible, terrible fall. But I don't honestly know what kind.... It may be the kind where, at ….
It's one of those places that are supposed to be very sophisticated and all, and the phonies are coming in the window..
If I were a piano player, I'd play it in the goddam closet..
I'd swear to God, if I were a piano player or an actor or something and all those dopes thought I was terrific, I'd hate it. I wouldn't even want the….