You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.- Tennessee Williams
Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I am only really alive when I am writing.
What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.
We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
To be free is to have achieved your life.
Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
Time is the longest distance between two places.
There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that is true of everyone, do not you?
