Love, if you love me, lie next to me. Be for me, like rain, the getting out of the tiredness, the fatuousness, the semi- lust of intentional indifference. Be wet with a decent happiness.

The awful thing, as a kid reading, was that you came to the end of the story, and that was it. I mean, it would be heartbreaking that there was no more of it.

What has happened makes the world. Live on the edge, looking.

What a great thing! To be a writer! Words are something you can carry in your head. You can really 'travel light.'

I know this body is impatient. I know I constitute only a meager voice and mind. Yet I loved, I love. I want no sentimentality. I want no more than home.

The pattern of the narrative never of necessity wants to end, it never has to.

I heard words and words full of holes aching.

I will go to the garden. I will be a romantic. I will sell myself in hell, in heaven also I will be.

For love - I would split open your head and put a candle in behind the eyes.

Writing is the same as music. It’s in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release it. And what you don’t play is as important as what you do say.

Communication is mutual feeling with someone, not a didactic process of information.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

There is Irish Spring, but there is no fall soap.

In high school, I was performing "forensics." You take a section of a play and portray all the characters. I even went to camp for forensics.

I do Pilates and yoga and try to eat healthy.

Other countries care for their mentally ill. Making them debate on TV is just cruel.

Health is when it hurts in a new place every day.

I didn't have a record player.

You think so logically... like a hawk soaring - I feel so chaotically... like a kite without a tail plummeting to earth.

Race always comes up in the conversation of Detroit.

Gain, acquired by many agents, soon accumulates.