Worse even than your maddening song, your silence.

There is a charge For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge For the hearing of my heart - It really goes. And there is a charge, a very large charge, For a word or a touch Or a bit of blood Or a piece of my hair or my clothes.

we walk the plank with strangers.

When you are insane, you are busy being insane-all the time ... when I was crazy, that was all I was.

I keep wanting to crawl back into the womb.

Over coffee and orange juice the embryonic suicide brightens visibly.

I felt very low. I had been unmasked only that morning by Jay Cee herself, and I felt now that all the uncomfortable suspicions I had about myself were coming true. After nineteen years of running after good marks and prizes and grants of one sort and another, I was letting up, slowing down, dropping clean out of race.