I didn't have any friends at school, didn't want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play and they looked foolish to me.

Some nights I knew that if I slept I would die.

Dying should come easy: like a freight train you don't hear when your back is turned.

I am too sick to lay down the sidewalks frighten me the whole damned city frightens me, what I will become what I have become frightens me.

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

Never bring a lot of money to where a poor man lives. He can only lose what little he has. On the other hand it is mathematically possible that he might win whatever you bring with you. What you must do, with money and the poor, is never let them get too close to one another.

They never pay the slaves enough so they can get free, just enough so they can stay alive and come back to work.