“And somewhereout there,in the river ofaddicts, alcoholics,wife beaters,doormats,overeducated legalized thieves,fascist police,and bitter rivalriessomeone told meits a good city,and I dont knowwhats...”

“When Pisces go to war, theres never a shortage of broken hearts.”

“What simple andordinary lives we live,underneath the shadowsof projection screenartists”

“I can remember whendelusions of grandeur entailed wanting tobe a rock star, movie star,a millionaire; to make itas a writernow it seems that itsto want to earn adecent living”

“Im in love with my corporate girlfriend,with the Cyclops heart”

“Love, is a Bloody Razor BladeLove came like fire from aboveand disappeared like a wet dream,underneath a leaky kitchen sinkFor weeks it went drip, drip, dripuntil it could be, eventually fixedIt to...”

“America—where we hate our fathers, love our mothers, andeveryone is hung up on tryingto be a man”

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

“If I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and t...”

“I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward one another. As basic as that is, for me it's also tonic and ...”

“She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, feared at tea-parties, hated in shops, and loved at crises.”

“For we think back through our mothers if we are women.”

“He is a young man with a future of power and opportunity and we are young women destined to be either wives and mothers at the very best, or spinster parasites at the worst.”