“On Whitman - His poetry refreshed me like harsh salt spray.”

“The point is that nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.”

“Sandburg is unreadable today only because of the way he wrote. His prose was bad poetry, like his poetry.”

“Not worth his salt.”

“Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was like eating an egg without salt.”

“Incompossible, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are incompossible when the world of being has scope enough for one of them, but not enough for both — as Walt Whitman's poetry and God's mercy to man.”

“Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.”

“The woman let out an expansive laugh that resounded through the house like a spray of broken glass.”

“Poetry is what looks like poetry, what sounds like poetry. It is metrical composition.”

“A good apology is like antibiotic, a bad apology is like rubbing salt in the wound.”