I Always Started A Job With The

We Are Here To Laugh At The Odds And Live Our Lives So Well That Death Will Tremble To Take Us.

The Shortest Distance Between Two Points Is Often Unbearable.

Christmas Poem To A Man In Jail Hello Bill Abbott: I Appreciate Your Passing Around My Books In Jail There, My Poems And Stories. If I Can Lighten The Load For Some Of Those Guys With My Books, Fine. But Literature, You Know, Is Difficult For The Average Man To Assimilate (and For The Unaverage Man Too); I Don't Like Most Poetry, For Example, So I Write Mine The Way I Like To Read It.

Bad Luck For The Young Poet Would Be A Rich Father, An Early Marriage, An Early Success Or The Ability To Do Anything Well.

If You Want To Know Where God Is, Ask A Drunk.