It is self-evident that St. Louis affected me more deeply than any other environment has ever done. I feel that there is something in having passed one's childhood beside the big river, which is incommunicable to those people who have not. I consider myself fortunate to have been born here, rather than in Boston, or New York, or London.

Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.

My life is light, waiting for the death wind, Like a feather on the back of my hand.

I can connect Nothing with nothing

In the end is my beginning.

If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.

Love compels cruelty To those who do not understand love.