The less I needed, the better I felt.

I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.

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

The apartment was built at the edge of a high cliff so that when you looked out the back window it seemed as if you were twelve floors up instead of four. It was very much like living on the edge of the world - a last resting place before the final big drop.

It was better for me when I could imagine greatness in others, even if it wasn't always there.

Christmas poem to a man in jail hello Bill Abbott: I appreciate your passing around my books in jail there, my poems and stories. if I can lighten the load for some of those guys with my books, fine. but literature, you know, is difficult for the average man to assimilate (and for the unaverage man too); I don't like most poetry, for example, so I write mine the way I like to read it.

Before my death I hope to obtain my life.