The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.

The blankets had fallen off and I stared down at her white back, the shoulder blades sticking out as if they wanted to grow into wings, poke through that skin. Little blades. She was helpless.

Each person is only given so many evenings and each wasted evening is a gross violation against the natural course of your only life.

A man who can beat the horses can do anything he makes up his mind to do.

Animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. Neither do I. Maybe that's why we get along.

I am a poem. There is no way out.

… and we are in bed together laughing and we don’t care about anything.