Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence.

The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.

Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.

I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.

A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.

I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.

Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.

Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life.

I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.

Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

We don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written.

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.

I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.

I fell in love, not deep, but I fell several times and then fell out.

I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.