The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.

Randolph," he said, "were you ever as young as me?" And Randolph said: "I was never so old.

New York is a diamond iceberg floating in river water.

Never love a wild thing...If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky.

All artists are two-headed calves.

Many universities have asked me to come for a semester but I don't want to do it because I don't have the patience.

...there was a blond misty boy sitting beside me, and he looked at me, and I at him, and we were not strangers: our hands moved towards each other to embrace. I never heard his voice, for we did not speak; it is a shame, I should so like the memory of it. Loneliness, like fever, thrives on night, but there with him light broke, breaking in the trees like birdsong, and when sunrise came, he loosened his fingers from mine, and walked away, that misty boy, my friend.