Don't fight your demons. Your demons are here to teach you lessons. Sit down with your demons and have a drink and a chat and learn their names and talk about the burns on their fingers and scratches on their ankles. Some of them are very nice.

they thought I had guts they were wrong I was only frightened of more important things

Sweet Christ, you must know that a man will go further for any poem than for any woman ever born.

they say that nothing is wasted: either that or it al is

I think that the world should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, just cats and rain, rain and cats, very nice, good night.

A day of minor profit or prophet led to a night of drunkenness.

I went over to see Marina two or three or four times a week. I knew as long as I could see the girl I would be all right…. Soon after, I got a letter from Fay. She and the child were living in a hippie commune in New Mexico. It was a nice place, she said. Marina would be able to breathe there. She enclosed a little drawing the girl had made for me.