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.

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

People are like almanacs, Bonnie - you never can find the information you're looking for, but the casual reading is well worth the trouble.

She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.

Don't you think I was made for you? I feel like you had me ordered - and I was delivered to you - to be worn. I want you to wear me, like a watch-charm or a buttonhole bouquet.

The purpose of life on earth is that the soul should grow - So Growl By doing what is right.

Youth doesn't need friends -- it only needs crowds.