The hardest thing, I think, is to live richly in the present, without letting it be tainted & spoiled out of fear for the future or regret for a badly-managed past.

I wondered why I couldn't go the whole way doing what I should any more. This made me sad and tired. Then I wondered why I couldn't go the whole way doing what I shouldn't, the way Doreen did, and this made me even sadder and more tired.

If only a group of people were more important to me than the idea of a Novel, I might begin a novel.

The body is amazingly stubborn when it comes to sacrificing itself to the annihilating directions of the mind.

There is no life higher than the grasstops

A black-sharded lady keeps me in a parrot cage.

You know what lies are for.