“Romance is everything.”

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.

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.

The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.

I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.

Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.

You attract what you need like a lover.

There are a lot of other things besides nouns.

If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.

It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.

I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.

This is the place of places and and it is here.