Should he give free reign to his desires, the bibliomaniac can ruin his life along with the lives of his loved ones. He'll often take better care of his books than of his own health; he'll spend more...

I'm a little bit naked, but that's okay.

Time doesn't heal all wounds, only distance can lessen the sting of them.

If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utter...

that your power of commandwith simple language wasone of the magnificent things ofour century.(from the poem: result)

And if you couldn't be loved, the next best thing was to be let alone.

I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.

There's no clarity.there was never meant to be clarity.

You're good with people, and all I know how to do is give good neck.

Truthfully she felt incredibly miserable, seeing university students and tourists bustling in and out of the place with their cell phones in hand, texting like there was no tomorrow. Living behind a s...

There'd be no point trynna blackmail a bloke everyone already knows is a cunt, would there?

There was a pause, then his lips stretched into a smile. You're right.Hell froze over. Pigs were flying. Come again?You're right. I should have checked in at some point. I'm sorry.The world was flat....

Nice girl. Wears too much makeup.Most chicks hate her.Most chicks wish they looked like her. And they wish they had her money and boyfriend.I stop and regard her in disgust. Burro Face?Oh, please, Ale...

Needless to say, jamming deformed, drugged, overstressed birds together in a filthy, waste-coated room is not very healthy. Beyond deformities, eye damage, blindness, bacterial infections of bones, sl...

My heart is really pounding, I said.That's how you know you're having fun, Margo said.