I remember every single spot of light that ever gouged a shadow beside your bones.

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

I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.

One illusion is as good as another.

Emptying the ashtrays was very expressive of myself. i just lump everything in a great heap which i have labeled ‘the past,’ and having thus emptied this deep reservoir that was once myself, i am ready to continue.

I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.

It's terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household; to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks.