Poems List

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.

My name's Munzer not God.

A promiscuous person is someone who is getting more sex than you are.

No one knows what he can do until he tries.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

I'd come out of the closet but the skeletons would get lonely.

To make a man happy, fill his hands with work.

My schoolmates would make love to anything that moved, but I never saw any reason to limit myself.

I have 20" arms and a 30" waist

According to conviction, I am not simply what I am doing now. I am also what I have done, and my conventionally edited version of my past is made to seem almost more the real me than what I am at this moment. For what I am seems so fleeting and intangible, but what I was is fixed and final. It is the firm basis for predictions of what I will be in the future, and so it comes about that I am more closely identified with what no longer exists than with what actually is

Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

I find women with well developed flesh very attractive. The scrawny little things doing commercials on my television set are slightly repulsive -- like famine victims.

No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve in quality as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing it is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it. It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them we may forget altogether to live them.

Time heals all wounds, but the scars remain forever

There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.

A good garden may have some weeds.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

Time heals all qounds, but the scars remain forever

A cult is a religion with no political power

The mere sense of living is joy enough.

At the end of all these years, it doesn't matter to me who thinks of me as what. What matters is whether I have done what I could and whether I had done something I shouldn't have.

But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?

He who limps still walks.