I can find almost anything funny, thank God, so you search for the black, lacy slip that encases the corpse. You know, shift the angle. God may take away, but he often leaves you with a terrific opening line for the next adventure. I would suggest taking it. Move on; change the angle; look at it in a different way tomorrow.

You are the only young man that I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present, the present the past, and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don't plan for it.

I saw that it was all over, put away in a box like a doll no longer cared for, the magical intimacy of our childhood together

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.

I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing. When you're going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.

Not facing a fire doesn't put it out.

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.