Most people are much better at saying things in letters than in conversation, and some people can write artistic, inventive letters, but when they try a poem or story or novel they become pretentious.

You can’t beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. and the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be. your life is your life. know it while you have it.

There's music in everything, even defeat

People do too much. They say too much.

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

I kept telling myself that all the women in the world weren´t whores, just mine.

My flesh looked like it wasn't trying. It looked like it hated being part of me.