there was something about that city, though it didn't let me feel guilty that I had no feeling for the things so many others needed. it let me alone.

People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective.

We use such big words to move nowhere.

We waste days like mad blackbirds and pray for alcoholic nightsour silk-sick human smiles wrap around us like somebody else's confetti

Before you kill something make sure you have something better to replace it with.

The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little bit more off you, until there was nothing left.

I'm only interested in poetry.