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"I believe myself to be an artist. That was my calling, to do my work, and what's most important to me is to do the best work I possibly can. And that is what means the most, that is what will endure."
"I don't consider writing a quiet, closet act. I consider it a real physical act. When I'm home writing on the typewriter, I go crazy. I move like a monkey. I've wet myself, I've come in my pants writing."
"I have vague memories, like impressions on glass plates."
"The only parts I like out of any of those women books is the dirty parts. But I don't think their dirty parts are any good, really."
"I think masturbating is a really important function in art. People don't like to hear that kind of stuff, but it's true."
"My parents were very well read. They were both New Englanders, not highly educated, but they had a sophisticated... they were both very humanistic, and they were sophisticated readers."
"I think guys are more emotional. Men are supposed to be the strong ones, they have pressure on them to be strong, but when it comes to sex men are much more emotional than women."
"It's not that I have compromised or anything, but it's always been important to me to take good care of myself and be a good example. I'm not much a role model in terms of hair care, though."
"My mother and father had so many ups and downs and stayed with each other and helped each other. My mother took in ironing and she was a waitress. My father was working in the factory and he did people's tax returns."
"I've never felt grounded because of my ancestry or my gender. I think until women get away from that they're not going to be great writers."
"Toyland, toyland . . . once you pass its portals you may never return again."
"We went our separate ways, but within walking distance of one another."
"I don't think," he insisted. "I feel."
"Everybody's got to reclaim these thingspoetry, rock'n'roll, political activismand it's got to be done over and over again. It's like eating: you can't say,'Oh, I ate yesterday'.You have to eat again."
"It was like being at an Arabian hoedown with a band of psychedelic hillbillies (p. 171)."
"As much as I can, as much as I can afford, I keep ticket prices down. Rock 'n' roll was developed as the people's voice, the people's art, it was grassroots. I don't believe that the people should be estranged from their rock stars. They're not kings and queens - all rock stars are those who are able to give back a bit of culture to other people. It's people's heritage."
"I hated the soup and felt little for the can."
"I reflected on the fact that no matter how good I aspired to be, I was never going to achieve perfection"
"I knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something."
"Pollution is a necessary result of the inability of man to reform and transform waste."