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

There are seductions that should be in the Smithsonian Institute, right next to The Spirit of St. Louis.

Elizabeth's voice had a door in it. When you opened that door you found another door, and that door opened yet another door. All the doors were nice and led out of her.

I had become so quiet and so small in the grass by the pond that I was barely noticeable, hardly there... I sat there watching their living room shining out of the dark beside the pond. It looked like a fairy tale functioning happily in the post-World War II gothic of America before television crippled the imagination of America and turned people indoors and away from living out their own fantasies with dignity... Anyway, I just kept getting smaller and smaller beside the pond, more and more unnoticed in the darkening summer grass until I disappeared into the 32 years that have passed since then.

God-forsaken is beautiful, too.

One day Time will die And love will bury it

For fear you will be alone you do so many things that aren't you at all.