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You women have more holes than swiss cheese.

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The ass is the face of the soul of sex.

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My heart is a thousand years old. I am not like other people.

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my gardenin the sun and in the rainand in the day and in the nightpain is a flowerpain is flowersblooming all the time.

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If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.

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when Whitman wrote, “I sing the body electric”I know what hemeantI know what hewanted:to be completely alive every momentin spite of the inevitable.we...more

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Yes Yeswhen God created love he didn't help most when God created dogs He didn't help dogs when God created plants that was average when God created h...more

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Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed. So I stayed in bed and drank. When ...more

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and our few good times will be rare because we have the critical senseand are not easy to fool with laughter

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Ya got cigarettes?” she asks. “Yes,” I say,“I got cigarettes.” “Matches?” she asks.“Enough to burn Rome.” “Whiskey?”“Enough whiskey for a Mississippi ...more

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

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where some god pissed a rain of reason to make things grow only to die,

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Basically, that's why I wrote: to save my ass, to save my ass from the madhouse, from the streets, from myself.

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my mother, poor fish,wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times aweek, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile!why don't you ever smile?"and then sh...more

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I have one problem, I don’t hate people. They disgust me and I want to get away from them. I do not have hatred. I have an escape mechanism.