It is not easy to be solitary unless you are also born ruthless. Every solitary repudiates someone.

The conversation of two people remembering, if the memory is enjoyable to both, rocks on like music or lovemaking. There is a rhythm and a predictability to it that each anticipates and relishes.

Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.

To meet at all, one must open ones eyes to another; and there is no true conversation no matter how many words are spoken, unless the eye, unveiled and listening, opens itself to the other.

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

Justice is a terrible but necessary thing.

The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness.