General Sayings

My mind is a storehouse of facts, a lumber room of oddities.

I detest the actively good. It is the passively good who do the least harm.

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

Churches, temples, mosques, synagogues and the like are not for the people. They are for the priests, for the clergy.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Living in New York is like being at a party where you're not sure if you're invited or not.

A true friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.

Certain things you can't learn in a classroom. You have to learn them on the streets, in the world, in life.

I'm not a writer who happens to teach. I'm a teacher who happens to write. I teach until my throat hurts, and then I write.

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

The public is a thick-skinned beast, and you have to club it soundly to get any attention at all.

I taste a liquor never brewed — From Tankards scooped in Pearl — Not all the Vats upon the Rhine Yield such an Alcohol!

The only way out is through.

How we need a a good long talk. I'm afraid I shall have to go to a psychoanalyst.

No matter what, I'm always going to be a Catholic.

I'm a poet, for Chrissake. I'm not a politician.

After a sex experience, you are either a man or a woman. Not both.

Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it.

Progress is the only fit for a man. Without progress, he's a dead man.