the best often die by their own hand just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody would ever want to get away from them

Some people have written that my writing has helped them go on. It has helped me too. The writing, the roses, the 9 cats.

How are his poems?" "He's not as good as he thinks he is, but then most of us feel that way.

I felt like crying but nothing came out. it was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can't feel any worse. I think you know it. I think everybody knows it now and then. but I think I have known it pretty often, too often.

People don't need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn't be.

When a hot woman meets a hermit one of them is going to change.

Life's as kind as you let it be.