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

That's your response to everything: drink?" "No, that's my response to nothing.

the whole world is caught in her glance and at last the universe is magnificent.

I didn't like parties.I didn't know how to dance and people frightened me, especially people at parties. They attempted to be sexy and gay and witty and although they hoped they were good at it, they weren 't. They were bad at it. Their trying so hard only made it worse.

If it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it.

But she projected vitality - you knew that she was there.

there is moss on the walls and the stain of thought and failure and waiting