If there are junk yards in hell, love is the dog that guards the gates.

some men never die and some men never live but we're all alive tonight.

We’ve died so many times now that we can only wonder why we still care.

i am going to start selling air in dark orange bags marked: moon-blooms

bad writing's like bad women: there's just not much you can do about it

I think I need a drink.' 'Almost everybody does only they don't know it.

It’s the order of things: each one gets a taste of honey then the knife.

Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.

...having nothing to struggle against they have nothing to struggle for.

I have gotten so used to melancholia that I greet it like an old friend.

A man who can beat the horses can do anything he makes up his mind to do.

It’s hard to drink when you dance. And it’s hard to dance when you drink.

some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.

Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They're always wrong.

the people are the biggest horror show on earth, have been for centuries.

It seems I make a lot of mistakes and it seems that I am not allowed any.

we know God is dead, they've told us, but listening to you I wasn't sure.

Much publishing is done through politics, friends, and natural stupidity.

Was I the only person who was distracted by this future without a chance?

One more drink and you're dead. This is no way to talk to a suicide head.

I grow tired of 18th century moralities in a 20th century space-atomic age

The empty, the angry, the lonely, the tricked, we are all museums of fear.

Erections, Ejaculations,Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness.

there is moss on the walls and the stain of thought and failure and waiting

my beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.

If it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it.

I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.

don't be ashamed of anything; I guess God meant it all like locks on doors.

My body gnaws at me from one side and my spirit gnaws at me from the other.

Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?

Sometimes I've called writing a disease. If so, I'm glad that it caught me.

I'll use the knives for spreading jam, and the gas to warm my greying love.

That was all a man needed: hope. It was lack of hope that discouraged a man.

Love is a horse with a broken leg trying to stand while 45,000 people watch.

Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.

It's better to do a dull thing with style than a dangerous thing without it.

I no longer want it all, just some comfort and some sex and some minor love.

I am aware that a computer can’t create a poem, but neither can a typewriter.

I'll get back to the whores and the horses and the booze, while there's time.

Belane, are you nuts?" Who knows? Insanity is comparative. Who sets the norm?

If you can't write the next line, well, you're dead. The past doesn't matter.

you fall into the mirror, come through the other side staring at a lightbulb.

I have loved you woman as surely as I have named you rust and sand and nylon.

being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.

If I hadn't been a drunkard, I probably would have committed suicide long ago.

I'm very clever at hiding poems perhaps more clever than I am at writing them.

I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.

Between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four, I must have read a whole library.

I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

And don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.

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