and then there are some who believe that old relationships can be revived and made new again. but please if you feel that way don't phone don't write don't arrive

the grace is being able to like rock music, symphony music, jazz … anything that contains the original energy of joy.

I seldom know what I'm going to write when I sit down. There isn't much agony and sweat of the human spirit involved in doing it. The writing's easy, it's the living that is sometimes difficult.

I have a face like a washrag. I sing love songs and carry steel. I would rather die than cry. I can't stand hounds can't live without them. I hang my head against the white refrigerator and want to scream like the last weeping of life forever but I am bigger than the mountains.

What a woman wants is a reaction. What a man wants is a woman.

Now something so sad has hold of us that the breath leaves and we can't even cry.

Parties sickened me. I hated the game-playing, the dirty play, the flirting, the amateurs drunks, the bores.