If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one huge gallows.

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

In a Cafe" I watched a man in a cafe fold a slice of bread as if he were folding a birth certificate or looking at the photograph of a dead lover.

"I count a lot of things that there's no need to count," Cameron said. "Just because that's the way I am. But I count all the things that need to be counted."

God-forsaken is beautiful, too.

I fished upstream coming ever closer and closer to the narrow staircase of the canyon. Then I went up into it as if I were entering a department store. I caught three trout in the lost and found department.

Burn all the maps to your body. I'm not here of my own choosing.