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

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

I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come.

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

He learned about life at sixteen, first from Dostoevsky and then from the whores of New Orleans.

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