Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.

This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

You don’t necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they’re poets. I don’t call myself a poet, because I don’t like the word. I’m a trapeze artist

The safest place to be during an earthquake would be in a stationary store.