I refuse to hold her hand and be slapped by it at the same time.
11-14-77
Failure to decide is in itself a decision.
1/78
death is alive
6-13-78
History speaks subtly, but with a loud voice.
6-13-78
Often the craft of subtlety is too obvious.
6-23-78
Fantasy is the ultimate comment on reality.
6-23-78
The only difference between a plastic and stainless spoon is that one cracks teeth while the other cracks.
6-23-78
In the practice of studying physiognomies, one must come face to face with the problem.
6-23-78
Why do people advise us to slow down but expect us to do it so quickly?
6-23-78
My English teacher always says that you get out of a book what you bring to it. I agree. But I'd also add you get out of a book what is put into it.
6-23-78
Being original is difficult. For instance, try saying that.
6-23-78
Bothering with bothersome people is too much a bother.
6-23-78
a greased palm
equals
a palmed buck
equals
a bucked law
7-5-78
STUDENT: Why?
TUTOR: You learn by teaching.
STUDENT: I learn by being taught.
7-6-78
TO PARENTS
Parents:
once your kid's begotten
let not him be forgotten.
7-8-78
If I were ever to think about what to write, I really think I couldn't think about it. So why not just write it?
7-14-78
The work of any good writer is an attempt to develop a suitable caption for the picture of life.
7-16-78
Why is dirt so dirty while soil seems so clean?
7-19-78
Always remember where you've been, becuase if you weren't there then, you wouldn't be here now.
7-29-78
The reason that so many people don't accomplish their sole purpose in life is because they have more than one.
7-31-78
You're not doing something unless you realize you're doing it.
8-9-78
Don't knock not knocking it until you've tried it until you've tried it.
8-17-78
Lovers aren't for loving; they're for being in love with.
8-21-78
Drink tea.
9-5-78
Truth is honesty.
9-5-78
Broken dreams are like broken records; they play themsleves over and over again.
9-5-78
The thrill of finding a dollar bill is worth more than the dollar itself.
9-8-78
A man with whom no one agrees is a poor man. A man with whom no one disagrees is poorer.
9-8-78
It takes a man to admit he's not a man.
9-9-78
breaking laws
is breaking bread
when you're with your dearest friends
10-21-78
Often the wisest use of time is wasting it.
10-22-78
visionary responses
to a stimulus from the future
independently run through
a nervous present.
10-24-78
Yet I suppose it's my own doings that do me in.
11-19-78
Playing solotaire
is easier when
no one else
can see your hand.
11-19-78
Black humor is only regular humor painted.
12-17-78
What's written ain't what's read.
12-19-78
if you believe me can i beleive myself?
1-8-79
Often the difference between the Haves and Have-nots is that they are reall the Cans and Cannots.
1-29-79
transcendentalism abounds
where there are no
boundaries
2-2-79
Poetry is taking the smallets things in life and making them big as they really are.
2-8-79
Farewell does not mean goodbye.
3-8-79
The excitement of doing something exciting is more exciting than the doing of it.
3-14-79
Our own devices are our vices.
4-5-79
from my childhood I got me
4-19-79
Some would say that being rich
is an itch.
They're the one you see
scratching happily.
5-12-79
I've heard that Heaven can wait
and it's mine to say
that Hell cannot
6-2-79
Liars are undiscovered actors.
9-25-79
It's better to break than to bend.
10-18-79
Childhood is free because freedom is unknown.
10-18-79
Secrets are built upon friendship.
1-4-80
If you put your lamp under a bushel,
the bushel may catch fire!
2-4-80
Behold the blue waters,
and indebt yourself to the sky.
2-4-80
When it seems like we know ourselves,
we are always ending up meeting someone else.
4-11-80
a self is but an other
conducted by a me
4-24-80
a piano is only as good
as the pianist
and yet
the pianist
can be no better than the piano
4-25-80
A fruit is only an older seed.
6-18-80
Realization comes but once;
thereafter it's just recognition.
7-18-80
A song can be sung without singing.
8-5-80
Life is the aanswer to all of life's questions.
8-11-80
A beginning is a time to finish
that which we have begun.
9-5-81
Least in the world of lessons dwell what's taught,
and foremost, what is not.
10-7-81
The life you live before your death
is simply one deep inhalation before the final breath.
11-12-81
The higher the edifice the more is it's leaning.
12-6-81
what will be will be what was
6-22-82
this is the sin
to go and know not where we've been
7-6-82
everything true is false in disguise
8-10-82
If the legs were mistaken and the crotch were not there would they meet?
The answer is found in the feet.
8-17-82
The world has too many poets
if you are one of them.
10-10-82
why must I meddle with my soul
if I am to let my spirit go?
11-29-82
Things that can't be said
are never worth the saying.
7-4-83
Enough with all the quirks;
that form is best that works.
10-5-83
Life without life is bread without leaven;
hell is the path toward heaven.
10-5-83
when i grow flat in you
i become myself
7-31-84
God's not going to kill me; he's just going to let me die.
7-31-84
We never enter the present (moment); we are always leaving it.
1-19-85
The problem is, when people see the light they're blinded.
5-16-85
Someone said that life sucks and then you die. They were alive at the time.
9-23-13