I do not like to work and have no trade but i do like to eat, so this is basic, the basic training of slaves to fear.

and getting dressed we talk about what else there might be to do, but being together solves most of it, in fact, solves all of it

Trouble and pain were what kept a man alive. Or trying to avoid trouble and pain. It was a full time job.

God knows I am not too hippy. Perhaps because I am too much around the hip and I fear fads for, like anybody else, I like something that tends to last.

The wisdom to quit is all we have left.

I read my books at night, like that, under the quilt with the overheated reading lamp. Reading all those good lines while suffocating. It was magic.

My body gnaws at me from one side and my spirit gnaws at me from the other.