If I never see you again I will always carry you inside outside on my fingertips and at brain edges and in centers centers of what I am of what remains.

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

I lie as truthfully as I can.

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.

I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

the writing of some men is like a vast bridge that carries you over the many things that claw and tear. The Wine of Forever

We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.