it is all ash and dry leaves and grief gone like an ocean liner.

that your power of command with simple language was one of the magnificent things of our century. (from the poem: result)

I walk into the kitchen, look at the typer down there on the floor. It's a dirty floor. It's a dirty typer that types dirty stories

There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure and moving on. Yet most people are stricken with fear. They fear failure so much that they fail. They are too conditioned, too used to being told what to do. It begins with the family, runs through school and goes into the business world.

I no longer want it all, just some comfort and some sex and some minor love.

It's better to do a dull thing with style than a dangerous thing without it.

That's how it is with books, isn't it: They're not in a hurry. They'll wait for you till you're ready. People empty me. I have to go away to refill.