I don't believe in god, so I don't have to make elaborately sounded structures. ... Pain always produces logic, which is very bad for you. ... As for measure and other technical apparatus, that's just common sense: if you're going to buy a pair of pants you want them to be tight enough so everyone will want to go to bed with you. There's nothing metaphysical about it.

Mothers of America / let your kids go to the movies!

I embraced a cloud but when I soared it rained.

And always embrace things, people earth sky stars, as I do, freely and with the appropriate sense of space.

Each time my heart is broken it makes me feel more adventurous (and how the same names keep recurring on that interminable list!), but one of these days there'll be nothing left with which to venture forth. Why should I share you? Why don't you get rid of someone else for a change?

There is a geography which holds its hands just so far from the breast and pushes you away, crying so.

But it is good to be several floors up in the dead of night wondering whether you are any good or not and the only decision you can make is that you did it.