If you can hit a guy once, you can hit him twice.

They, all of them, seemed to put literary form in front of the actuality and living of life itself.

I read my books at night, like that, under the quilt with the overheated reading lamp. Reading all those good lines while suffocating. It was magic.

Never bring a lot of money to where a poor man lives. He can only lose what little he has. On the other hand it is mathematically possible that he might win whatever you bring with you. What you must do, with money and the poor, is never let them get too close to one another.

the tigers have found me and I do not care.

my 6 foot goddess makes me laugh the laughter of the mutilated who still need love... she has saved me from everything that is not here

our bones like stems into the sky will forever cry victory