Young, gifted, and destitute.

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

No, truth is something desperate, an' she's got it. Believe me, it's something desperate, an' she's got it.

The future is called 'perhaps,' which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

Val: Why do you go out there? Sandra: Because dead people give such good advice. Val: What advice do they give? Sandra: Just one word- live!

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

If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.