if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don't do it.

the tired sunsets and the tired people - it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all.

And there I was, 225 pounds, perpetually lost and confused, short legs, ape-like upper body, all chest, no neck, head too large, blurred eyes, hair uncombed, 6 feet of geek, waiting for her.

The empty, the angry, the lonely, the tricked, we are all museums of fear.

the masses are everywhere they know how to do things: they have sane and deadly angers for sane and deadly things.

They laughed. Things were funny. They weren't afraid to care. There was no sense to life, to the structure of things.

Dear child, I only did to you what the sparrow did to you; I am old when it is fashionable to be young; I cry when it is fashionable to laugh. I hated you when it would have taken less courage to love.