I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it.

My teachers could easily have ridden with Jesse James for all the time they stole from me.

I feel as if I am an ad for the sale of a haunted house: 18 rooms $37,000 I’m yours ghosts and all.

The sun was like a huge 50-cent piece that someone had poured kerosene on and then had lit with a match, and said, "Here, hold this while I go get a newspaper," and put the coin in my hand, but never came back.

Love Poem ـــــــــ It's so nice to wake up in the morning all alone and not have to tell somebody you love them when you don't love them any more.

We looked like a parade barely moving toward YOU MIGHT GET LOST.

It's pretty hard to have faith when everybody is trying to lock you up.