Nothing annoys me more than having the most trivial action analyzed and explained.

Look closer and you'll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.

We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising.

And, Joey, if you ever want to know about the japonicas and the daisy fields it will be alright that you have forgotten because I will be able to tell you about how it felt to be feeling that way you cannot quite remember – that will be for the time when something happens years from now that reminds you of now.

The sky lay over the city like a map showing the strata of things and the big full moon toppled over in a furrow like the abandoned wheel of a gun carriage on a sunset field of battle and the shadows walked like cats and I looked into the white and ghostly interior of things and thought of you and I looked on their structural outsides and thought of you and was lonesome.

We get something to do and as soon as we've got it, it gets us.

I am really only myself when I'm somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.