I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free.

If poets often commit suicide, it is not because their poems are bad but because they are good. Whoever heard of a bad poet committing suicide? The reader is only a little better off. The exhilaration of a good poem lasts twenty minutes, an hour at most. Unlike the scientist, the artist has reentry problems that are frequent and catastrophic.

Free people have a serious problem with place, being in a place, using up a place, deciding which new place to rotate to. Americans ricochet around the United States like billiard balls.

Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know.

In this world, goodness is destined to be defeated.

I like to eat crawfish and drink beer. That's despair?

Why is it that no other species but man gets bored? Under the circumstances in which a man gets bored, a dog goes to sleep.