Catch me, as if I have surely been out committing a violation against you, my sin of insisting on existing without you.

As time has gone on and we're at the end of the 20th century and major publishing is a big business, yes, of course we're going to get a lot of plain, mediocre trash. There are a lot of writers who get huge advances for books that don't go anywhere and they have to burn them somewhere or throw them away. I always think about all the poor trees that have been sacrificed.

To all the women and the men who ever loved me just a little.

Between the sun and poverty there was us for a little while.

Our goal should be to achieve joy

Poverty has its advantages. When you're that poor what would you have that anyone would want? Except your peace of mind. Your dignity. Your heart. The important things.

Paris, true to its promise, had been a place of civilized indecencies, or uncivil decencies.