Most people are not ready for death, theirs or anybody elses.

Love dries up, I thought as I walked back to the bathroom, even faster than sperm.

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.

I was young I was so young it hurt like a knife inside because there was no alternative except to hide as long as possible--- not in self-pity but with dismay at my limited chance: trying to connect.

I walk into the kitchen, look at the typer down there on the floor. It's a dirty floor. It's a dirty typer that types dirty stories

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.

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