I have been treated better than I should have been---not by life in general nor by the machinery of things but by women.
sometimes I hate you," she said.
The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it
I am not a snob; it is simply that I am not interested with what most people have to say, or what they want to do — mostly with my time.
I have loved you woman as surely as I have named you rust and sand and nylon.
I was only kidding about the hundred," she says. oh," I say, "what will it cost me?" she lights her cigarette with my lighter and looks at me through the flame: her eyes tell me. look," I say, "I don't think I can ever pay that price again.