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Well, if the funeral was mine I'd have to be on time. If the wedding was mine it would be my funeral." I was always quick with the mouth. I would never learn.

There is nothing quite like the expectancy of the beginning writer, unless it is the conceit of the successful one.

Lady death was ecstatic, that's all, ecstatic. She looked truly beautiful all over.

Lees je Céline?' vroeg een vrouwenstem. Haar stem klonk tamelijk sexy. Ik had me al een tijd eenzaam gevoeld. Tientallen jaren eigenlijk.[...] 'Nou, aan de slag. Ik wil Frankrijks grootste schrijver. Ik wacht al heel lang.

Fay had grey hair and always dressed in black. She said she was protesting the war.

Suicide? Jesus Christ, just more work. I felt like sleeping for five years but they wouldn't let me.

I'm just an alcoholic who became a writer so that I would be able to stay in bed until noon.

I don't write out of knowledge. When the phone rings I too would like to hear words that might ease some of this. That's why my number's listed.

I'm not a guru. I wish you wouldn't pose these things at me, man. Ask me about women or something.

Bad writers tend to have self-confidence, while the good ones tend to have self-doubt.

also, the oldest notion still in vogue is that if you can't understand a poem then it almost certainly is a good one.

So," said Sarah, "those are your readers?" "That's most of them, I think." "Don't any intelligent people read you?" "I hope so.

The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth.

and now sometimes I'm interviewed, they want to hear about life and literature and I get drunk and hold up my cross-eyed shot runover de-tailed cat before them and I say, "look, look at this!

are you paranoid?" he asks. "of course. what sane man is not?

in the sun and in the rain and in the day and in the night pain is a flower pain is flowers blooming all the time.

Will you read some of your poems?" "Christ, no." "Why not?" "I just want to drink." "You talk about drinking a lot in your books. Do you think drinking has helped your writing?" "No. I'm just an alcoholic who became a writer so that I would be able to stay in bed until noon." I

You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn't deceive anybody.

testament to the human capacity to adapt (or, less charitably, to our ability to operate in ignorance).

except for llamas in the Andes, the Western Hemisphere had no beasts of burden.

The Haudenosaunee thus would have the second oldest continuously existing representative parliaments on earth. Only Iceland's Althing, founded in 930 A.D., is older.

They keep it carefully tended and gaily decked, and esteem it as highly as ladies in Europa.

As long as you could fall farther you distinguished yourself from the fallen. Loss reinstated possibility, but possibility without hope. And perhaps this explains how all of us blithely

We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.