Four days alone with nothing. Emerge empowered. The first human face you see will knock you back 50%.

An artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way

Insanity is relative. Who sets the norm?

don't be ashamed of anything; I guess God meant it all like locks on doors.

I am too sick to lay down the sidewalks frighten me the whole damned city frightens me, what I will become what I have become frightens me.

Of course, there would always be arguments. That is the nature of Woman. They like the mutual exchange of dirty laundry, a bit of screaming, a bit of dramatics. Then an exchange of vows.

I went over to see Marina two or three or four times a week. I knew as long as I could see the girl I would be all right…. Soon after, I got a letter from Fay. She and the child were living in a hippie commune in New Mexico. It was a nice place, she said. Marina would be able to breathe there. She enclosed a little drawing the girl had made for me.