The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.
An artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way.
They never pay the slaves enough so they can get free, just enough so they can stay alive and come back to work.
If it doesn’t come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it.
It’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.
The trouble with a mask is it never changes.
You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn’t deceive anybody. It’s the deceivers who make you feel bad.
Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.
Lighting new cigarettes, pouring more drinks. It has been a beautiful fight. Still is.
Careful poetry and careful people live only long enough to die safely.
I can almost understand why people leap from bridges.
I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.
Don’t do it. Don’t love me.
I wasn’t sleeping on the streets at night. Of course, there were a lot of good people sleeping in the streets. They weren’t fools, they just didn’t fit into the needed machinery of the moment. And those needs kept altering.
Once a woman turns against you, forget it. They can love you, then something turns in them. They can watch you dying in a gutter, run over by a car, and they’ll spit on you.
If I never see you again, I will always carry you, inside, outside, on my fingertips, and at brain edges, and in centers, centers of what I am, of what remains.
It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun.
I had no feeling for the things so many others needed.
We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men’s crapper of the local bar.
To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.