“I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.”

The tired sunsets and the tired people – it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all.

Any asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline.

We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system.

We’ve died so many times now that we can only wonder why we still care.

We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting.

Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it’s for something else.

Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.

Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.

Without literature, life is hell.

Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.

Sex is interesting, but it’s not totally important.

Anything is a waste of time unless you are fucking well or creating well or getting well or looming toward a kind of phantom – love – happiness.

If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start.

What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.

There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.

Keep an open heart To allow the world Lovingly and faithfully To come in.

If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.

There is something extraordinary about watching her inhabit the world. – and sometimes she catches me staring.

He says he wants to take me to Paris – but I see Amsterdam in his eyes.

I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.

Sex is like washing your face – just something you do because you have to. Sex without love is absolutely ridiculous. Sex follows love, it never precedes it.

I love it. I hate that word (fatherhood), but I love being a father; it’s changed everything in so many ways.