I was their bar freak, they needed me to make themselves feel better. just like, at times, I needed that graveyard.

It was a joy! Words weren't dull, words were things that could make your mind hum. If you read them and let yourself feel the magic, you could live without pain, with hope, no matter what happened to you.

It’s so easy to be easy—if you let it.

The nine-to-five is one of the greatest atrocities sprung upon mankind. You give your life to a function that doesn't interest you. This situation so repelled me that I was driven to drink, starvation, and mad females, simply as an alternative.

that your power of command with simple language was one of the magnificent things of our century. (from the poem: result)

you are on the freeway threading through traffic now, moving both towards something and towards nothing at all as you punch the radio on and get Mozart, which is something, and you will somehow get through the slow days and the busy days and the dull days and the hateful days and the rare days, all both so delightful and so disappointing because we are all so alike and so different.

I am not a snob; it is simply that I am not interested with what most people have to say, or what they want to do — mostly with my time.