Silence And a deeper silence When the crickets Hesitate

I’ve seen the nations rise and fall. I’ve heard their stories, heard them all, but love’s the only engine of survival.

I have tried in my way to be free.

How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?

[Prozac] didn't seem to have any effect whatsoever on my melancholy, my dark vision, and everything else that I'd taken it for.

He hated the men floating in sleep in the big stone houses. Because their lives were ordered and their rooms tidy. Because they got up every morning and did their public work. Because they weren't going to dynamite their factories and have naked parties in the fire.

What [Prozac] does is completely annihilate the sexual drive, so the question of passion hardly arises.