Don't be married to a line or verse if it can't rhyme, fit the meter, or doesn't fit the outline.

I'm a fool, to confuse this with goodness. I am not good. I know too much to be good. I know myself. I know myself to be vengeful, greedy, secretive and sly.

Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.

Why are you so interested in amoebas?" "Oh, they're immortal," he said, "and sort of shapeless and flexible. Being a person is getting too complicated.

Although from you I far must roam, do not be broken hearted. We two, who in the souls are one, are never truly parted.

I’m not used to girls, or familiar with their customs. I feel awkward around them, I don’t know what to say. I know the unspoken rules of boys, but with girls I sense that I am always on the verge of some unforeseen, calamitous blunder.

It's evening, one of those gray water-color washes, like liquid dust.