“Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.”

I am I because my little dog knows me.

Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.

This joy you feel is life.

Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.

Let me listen to me and not to them.

There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.

Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.

Nothing has happened today except kindness.

There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.

You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.

Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.

Romance is everything.

Any time is the time to make a poem.

Money is always there but the pockets change.

In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.

The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.