By caring just that much less than whatever you ante as indifference.
And there you were, he said. In your cotton-underweared splendor.
Later, Giddle’s response when I told her I was in love: Oh God, I’m so sorry. Love is awful. It ruins every normal thing, everything but itself. It makes you crazy and for nothing, because it’s so dis...
Sometimes what other people want is wantable, briefly, before dissolving in the face of your own wants.
Save your freedom for a rainy day, someone had written on the bathroom wall at Rudy’s Bar in SoHo,
Most unexpected was the sadness that followed on the heels of pleasure, like smoke from an extinguished candle.
I was not likely to join a cult. That was not the danger I felt in glimpsing the feet of the dead, the bucket from which they drank. It was the proven fact, in the photographed feet, that you could dr...
I tried to explain this to Nadine, but she kept interrupting me.
All the talk of regret. They make you form your life around one thing, the thing you did, and you have to grow yourself from what cannot be undone: they want you to make something from nothing. They m...
His ridiculousness was a form of vitality.
I usually get up between 7 A.M. and 8 A.M., have coffee, and go right to work. It's really important not to get sidetracked in the morning so I'm still in that dreamy state for my writing.
Was one of those. If you follow their rules, they make more rules. You have to fight people or you end up with nothing.
You have time. Meaning don’t use it, but pass through time in patience, waiting for something to come. Prepare for its arrival. Don’t rush to meet it. Be a conduit.
The thing about songwriting, John Dogg was saying to someone, is that you can address things obliquely, but no matter. You can’t get away from the content that is the essence of the form. All songs ar...
It was only a motorcycle but it felt like a mode of being.
I don’t know if it’s revolutionary not to work, she had told me, but it’s better. When you sell your body you are what you do. You’re yourself and you get paid for it, or so she had thought at the tim...
People only tend to allow their own contradictions, and not those of others. It was okay to be murky to yourself, to know you weren't an angel, but other people had to be more cleanly divided into goo...
Who knew why they waited, I thought, understanding that I, too, had it in me to wait. To expect change to come from outside, to concentrate on the task of meeting it, waiting to meet it, rather than g...
What occurred did so because I was open to it, and not because fate and I met at a certain angle. I had plenty of time to think about this later. I thought about it so much that the events of that eve...
What happens between bodies during an insurrection is more interesting than the insurrection itself.