The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies on the same turd.

That was all a man needed: hope. It was lack of hope that discouraged a man.

The masses are always wrong...Wisdom is doing everything the crowd does not do. All you do is reverse the totality of their learning and you have the heaven they're looking for.

All our days are marked with/ unexpected/ affronts--some/ disastrous, others/ less so/ but the process is/ wearing and/ continuous./ Attrition rules./ Most give/ way/ leaving/ empty spaces/ where people should/ be.

My part of the game is that I must live the best I can.

I can't blame her. but wonder why she's here with me? where are the other guys? how can you be lucky? having someone the others have abandoned?

We are here to laugh at the odds.