... stop trying to get me to write about 'decent courageous people' -- read the Ladies' Home Journal for those! ... I believe in going through and facing the worst, not hiding from it.

Joy:show joy & enjoy: then others will be joyful.

I have stitched life into me like a rare organ

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

I need not to be more with others, but to be more & more deeply, richly alone. Recreating worlds.

I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.

Love set you going like a fat gold watch. The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry Took its place among the elements.