The panic disappeared under those soothing old fingers and the breathing slowed down and stopped hurting the chest as if a fox was caught in it, and then at last Mr. Kroger began to lecture the boy as he used to, Pablo, he murmured, don't ever be so afraid of being lonely that you forget to be careful. Don't forget that you will find it sometimes but other times you won't be lucky, and those are the times when you have got to be patient, since patience is what you must have when you don't have luck.

A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. No woman can hold him. The wind must blow him away.

If you can't be yourself, what's the point of being anyone else?

You take it for granted that I am in something that I want to get out of.

A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.

Hysteria is a natural phenomenon, the common denominator of the female nature. It's the female weapon and the test of a man is his ability to cope with it.

I'm only really alive when I'm writing.