Somewhere along the line I knew there'd be girls, visions, everything; somewhere along the line the pearl would be handed to me.

No time for poetry but exactly what is.

You were my last chance' she's said but don't all women say that? - But can it be by 'last chance' she doesn't mean mere marriage but some profoundly sad realization of something in me she really needs to go on living, at least that impression coming across anyway on the force of all the gloom we've shared -

They spent all week saving pennies and went out Saturdays to spend fifty bucks in three hours.

Your Buddhism has made you mean Ray and makes you even afraid to take your clothes off for a simple healthy orgy

Something good will come out of all things yet — And it will be golden and eternal just like that.

What difference does it make after all?--anonymity in the world of men is better than fame in heaven, for what’s heaven? what’s earth? All in the mind.