The good thing about masturbation is that you don't have to get dressed up for it.

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.

[T]he army of wrongness rampant in the world might as well march over me.

would you reach in the drawer there and give me my purse. A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her lipstick.

Don't wanna sleep, don't wanna die, just wanna go a-travellin' through the pastures of the sky

I'll wager at the end a body realizes the Lord has already shown Himself. That things as they are -- her hand circles in a gesture that gathers clouds and kites and grass and Queenie pawing earth over her bone - just what they've always seen, was seeing Him. As for me, I could leave the world with today in my eyes.

Are the dead as lonesome as the living?