I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun. And though I roam all over the world, The spending of it’s never done.

You ought to be ironical the minute you get out of bed. You ought to wake up with your mouth full of pity.

Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph.

There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.

Life is the best left hooker I ever saw, although some say it was Charlie White of Chicago

Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly.

You know I don't love any one but you. You shouldn't mind because some one else loved me.