places to hunt places to hide are getting harder to find, and pet canaries and goldfish too, did you notice that?

Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity

Bad luck for the young poet would be a rich father, an early marriage, an early success or the ability to do anything well.

Well, the rain had stopped but the pain was still there.

I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

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

A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.