And I said to myself that he was the first thing that I had ever missed in my life.

You can’t beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. and the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be. your life is your life. know it while you have it.

I have been treated better than I should have been---not by life in general nor by the machinery of things but by women.

I wasn't sleeping on the streets at night. Of course, there were a lot of good people sleeping in the streets. They weren't fools, they just didn't fit into the needed machinery of the moment. And those needs kept altering.

When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about. My contest is only with myself, to do it right, with power, and force, and delight, and gamble.

I have loved you woman as surely as I have named you rust and sand and nylon.

I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go.