***************
It is a basic
scientific principle
that sex is like air
***************
America grinds
her teeth at night in cosmic
disillusionment
***************
Reality is
good but I like to sit with
my back turned to it
***************
Everybody gets
so much information they
don’t do anything
***************
I do want to get
rich but I don’t want to be
counting my money
***************
A writer should write
and a painter should paint . . . But
not in the same house
***************
Communists believe
in collectivism . . . And I
believe in flowers
***************
It is the soothing
thing about history that
it takes so much time
***************
It takes a lot of
money to be a genius
in America
***************
Literature is
a daily miracle of
faded memory
***************
Art is an end in
itself . . . It is unconcerned
with what you believe
***************
The earth is the earth
as Picasso sees it . . . A
peasant doesn’t count
***************
Marriage will destroy
the family . . . I cannot
help defending it
***************
It is always a
mistake to have a war in
Switzerland . . . So dull!
***************
Hemingway’s work looks
so promising until one
sees the old swine drunk
***************
War is like dancing
with country-poor German girls
in a urinal
***************
Do not forget the
birthdays of vegetables . . .
Except for string beans
***************
Tags: haiku, poetry, quote, Tender Buttons, The Making of Americans
