Food is good for the nerves and the spirit. Courage comes from the belly – all else is desperation.

To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

That's what friendship means: sharing the prejudice of experience.

Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.

little sun little moon little dog and a little to eat and a little to love and a little to live for in a little room filled with little mice who gnaw and dance and run while I sleep waiting for a little death in the middle of a little morning in a little city in a little state my little mother dead my little father dead in a little cemetery somewhere. I have only a little time to tell you this: watch out for little death when he comes running but like all the billions of little deaths it will finally mean nothing and everything: all your little tears burning like the dove, wasted.

I wish to weep but sorrow is stupid. I wish to believe but belief is a graveyard.

how can you be true and kind at the same time? how?