People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way.

All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was alway controlling who got a chance and who didn't.

My heart is a thousand years old. I am not like other people.

I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.

I have been treated better than I should have been---not by life in general nor by the machinery of things but by women.

It will rain all this night and we will sleep transfixed by the dark water as our blood runs through our fragile life.

That's the way it ends. The thin edge of the wedge.