the grace is being able to like rock music, symphony music, jazz … anything that contains the original energy of joy.

They, all of them, seemed to put literary form in front of the actuality and living of life itself.

it doesn't matter if Prince Charles falls off his horse or that the hummingbird is so seldom seen or that we are too senseless to go insane. coffee. give us more of that NOTHING coffee.

If it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it.

We do not abandon ship. I say, as corny as it may sound, through the strength and spirit and fire and dare and gamble of a few men in a few ways we can save the carcass of humanity from drowning. No light goes out until it goes out. Let's fight as men, not rats. Period. No further addition.

the writing of some men is like a vast bridge that carries you over the many things that claw and tear. The Wine of Forever

I kept telling myself that all the women in the world weren´t whores, just mine.