Picasso can point to a painting. What can I point to? A writer can point to a book. Everybody should have something to point to.

I would rather work my ass off for eight hours a day with nobody watching me than five minutes with a guy watching me.

If you can’t improve yourself, you improve your posterity. Otherwise life isn’t worth nothing. You might as well go back to the cave and stay there.

Machines can either liberate man or enslave ’im, because they’re pretty neutral. It’s man who has the bias to put the thing one place or another.

The people in power fear the leisure man.

You can become a fanatic if you had the time. The whole thing is time. That is, I think, one reason rich kids tend to be fanatic about politics: they have time. Time, that’s the important thing.

It isn’t that the average working guy is dumb. He’s tired, that’s all.

One guy says good morning to you and you say good morning. To another guy you say fuck you. The guy you say fuck you to is your friend.

If I were hiring people to work, I’d try naturally to pay them a decent wage. I’d try to find out their first names, their last names, keep the company as small as possible, so I could personalize the whole thing. All I would ask a man is a handshake, see you in the morning. No applications, nothing. I wouldn’t be interested in the guy’s past.
Though we labor with our minds, this place we can relax in was built by someone who can work with his hands. And his work is as noble as ours. I think the poet owes something to the guy who builds the cabin for him.