It is no use trying to assume again the state of innocence and acceptance of the animal or the child. This time it has to be conscious. To circle about in such gladness as his, is the effort of a whol...
It is never too late to learn to love. But it is frightening.
It is necessary to go through life a little blunted, a little cloaked, how else to bear even a single day? The horror and the glory would overwhelm me. Papa used to talk about the story of the burning...
In this life, you have to be your own hero.
In their world good manners and good sense prevail. They don’t imagine that to choose sensibly is to set a time-bomb under yourself. They don’t imagine you are ripe for the cutting, waiting for your c...
In the sky, Planet Moon is 239,000 miles away. That’s not far when you remember that the sun is 93 million miles away.
In the secret places of her thymus gland Louise is making too much of herself. Her faithful biology depends on regulation but the white T-cells have turned bandit. They don't obey the rules. They are...
In the heat of her hands I thought, This is the campfire that mocks the sun.
If there is such a thing as spiritual adultery, my mother was a whore.
If the demons lie within they travel with you. Everyone thinks their own situation most tragic. I am no exception.
If I want to say no, I will, but for the right reasons. If I want to say yes, I will, but for the right reasons. Leave the consequences. Leave the finale. Leave the grand statements. The simplicity of...
I've thought of killing myself so many times. I don't do it, not because I am a coward, but because it would be easier for me to be dead. What's my life? I make money and I make memories. That's not a...
I'm not looking for God, only for myself, and that is far more complicated. God has a great deal written about Him; nothing has been written about me.
I would be tender as the night that covers up your foolishness and mine.
I was the place where you anchored. I was the deep water where you could be weightless. I was the surface where you saw your own reflection. You scooped me up in your hands.
I was never bored except in the company of others.
I was happy but happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about being happy, you see it. They are or they are not. Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not. Talking about...
I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and knows that love is as strong as death, and be on my side forever and ever. I want someone who will destroy and be destroyed by me.
I thought of my often-dream where Time poured the fishes into the sky and the sky was full of star fish; stella maris of the upper air.
I think I may have missed the world, that the one I’ve seen is a decoy to get me off the scent.