I found the best thingI could dowas just to type awayat my own workand let the dyingdieas they always have.

Now something so sad has hold of us that the breath leaves and we can't even cry.

yes, Wagner and the storm intermix with the wine as nights like this run up my wrists and up into my head and back down into the gut

having nothing to struggleagainstthey have nothing to strugglefor.

the gods play nofavorites.

the gods seldomgivebut so quicklytake.

she slammed the door andwas gone.I looked at the closed doorand at the doorknoband strangelyI didn't feelalone.

the worst thing, " he told me, "is bitterness, people end up sobitter.

I see a brightportionunder the overhead lightthat shades intodarknessand then into darkerdarknessand I can't see beyond that.

I believe that to be the world's greatest livingwriterthere must be somethingterribly wrong with you.I don't even want to be the world's greatestdead writer.just being dead would be fairenough.

I paid, got up, walkedto the door, openedit.I heard the mansay, "that guy'snuts."out on the street Iwalked northfeelingcuriouslyhonored.

Was like the Green Man said, some you got to put to the bullet. Some to the tongue. Often the latter, with me. But some, you just got to put behind you.

A true survivor is someone who, after 12+ years of being schooled, remains independent in their thinking.

What I am looking for is not happiness. I work solely because it is impossible for me to do anything else.

I can be bought. If they paid me enough, I'd work for the Klan.

I think that if politics is just about getting your backside on important seats, then it's a pretty worthless endeavor.

I just don't think it's very dignified to ask people to like you. You can just wind up being somebody's ottoman.

Despite our sins, we can say with Peter: Lord, you know everything, you know that I love you.

Look, lovers: almost separately they come towards us through the flowery grass and slowly; parting's so far from thought of, they indulge the extravagance of walking unembraced.

A beggar always remains a beggar. Africa, stop begging - you have what it takes to solve your problem.