As I lay on my back in bed staring up at the blank, white ceiling the stillness seemed to grow bigger and bigger until I felt my eardrums would burst with it.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.

Beached under the spumy blooms, we lie Sea-sick and fever-dry.

If you dissect a bird / to diagram the tongue, / you'll cut the chord / articulating song.

Winning or losing an argument, receiving an acceptance or rejection, is no proof of the validity or value of personal identity. One may be wrong, mistaken, or a poor craftsman, or just ignorant - but this is no indication of the true worth of one's total human identity: past, present and future!

If I was going to fall, I would hang on to my small comforts, at least, for as long as I possibly could.