it is good to be sitting some place in public at 2:30 in the afternoon without getting the flesh ripped from your bones.

If I have any advice to anybody it's this: take up watercolor painting.

Her violence frightened me. She always claimed that I was the jealous one, and I was often jealous, but when I saw things working against me I simply became disgusted and withdrew. Lydia was different. She reacted. She was the Head Cheerleader at the Game of Violence.

People who believe in politics are like people who believe in God: they are sucking wind through bent straws.

I have loved you woman as surely as I have named you rust and sand and nylon.

I like women who haven’t lived with too many men. I don’t expect virginity but I simply prefer women who haven’t been rubbed raw by experience. There is a quality about women who choose men sparingly; it appears in their walk in their eyes in their laughter and in their gentle hearts. Women who have had too many men seem to choose the next one out of revenge rather than with feeling. When you play the field selfishly everything works against you: one can’t insist on love or demand affection. You’re finally left with whatever you have been willing to give which often is: nothing.

Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.