If you will die for me, I will die for you and our graves will be like two lovers washing their clothes together in a laundromat If you will bring the soap I will bring the bleach.

I had a good-talking candle last night in my bedroom. I was very tired but I wanted somebody to be with me, so I lit a candle and listened to its comfortable voice of light until I was asleep.

It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult.

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

I believe I saw a woodcock. He had a long bill like putting a fire hydrant into a pencil sharpener, then pasting it onto a bird and letting the bird fly away in front of me with this thing on its face for no other purpose than to amaze me.

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.

The heart is something else. Nobody knows what's going to happen,' I said