Example moves the world more than doctrine.

We are dancing in the hollow of nothingness. We are one flesh, but separated like stars.

Your nearness is the nearness of planets. I am the void between you. If I withdraw there will be no void for you to swim in.

All the men she's been with and now you, just you, and the barges going by, masts and hulls, the whole damned current of life flowing through you, through her, through all the guys behind you and after you, the flowers and the birds and the sun streaming in and the fragrance of it choking you, annihilating you.

When you travel often, you will be addicted to it forever.

There will be more calamities, more death, more despair. Not the slightest indication of a change anywhere. The cancer of our time is eating us away. Our heroes have killed themselves, or are killing themselves.

Somewhere along the way one discovers that what one has to tell is not nearly so important as the telling itself.