there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock

A dry period for me means perhaps going two or three nights without writing. I probably have dry periods but I'm not aware of them and I go on writing, only the writing probably isn't much good.

The courage it took to get out of bed each morning to face the same things over and over was enormous.

She was desperate and she was choosey at the same time and, in a way, beautiful, but she didn't have quite enough going for her to become what she imagined herself to be.

you fall into the mirror, come through the other side staring at a lightbulb.

It's just that the grape has me down.

i was born to hustle roses down the avenue of the dead.