I have had my ups and downs but wotthehell wotthehellyesterday scepters and crowns fried oysters and velvet gown sand today I heard with bums but wotthehell wotthehelli wake the world from sleeps I caper and sing and leap when I sing my wild free tunewotthehell wotthehellunder the blear eyed moon am pelted with cast off shootout wotthehell

— Don Marquis

In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.

— Don Marquis

It is better to be happy for the moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.

— Don Marquis

It won't be long now it won't be Longman is making deserts of the earth it won't be long now before man will have used it ups that nothing but ant sand centipedes and scorpion scan find a living on it....what man calls civilization always results in deserts....men talk of money and industry of hard times and recoveries of finance and economics but the ants wait and the scorpions wait for while men talk they are making deserts all the time getting the world ready for the conquering ant drought and erosion and desert because men cannot learn....it won't be long now it won't be long till earth is barren as the moon and sapless as a mumbled bone

— Don Marquis

I would rather start a family than finish one.

— Don Marquis

Justice...is not inherent in the universe and what man has put there he uses when he uses it at all strictly for his own purposes the world is so sad that the only way to live with it is to laugh at it

— Don Marquis

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

— Don Marquis

My master is the same as god when he thumps with his hand people bring us hamburg steak sat any eating stand "Pete s holiday

— Don Marquis

Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.

— Don Marquis

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

— Don Marquis