“We were like two atoms in one molecule, hydrogen and oxygen. Both explosive alone, but the source of everything when we came together.”

“Weve been so busy with these things we let ourselves think actually mattered, but they dont. Theres no such thing as the right career, or morality, or destiny, or fate. Theres only life. And whethe...”

“You have a dedication to life and truth that burns out of you as beauty and I envy it so much I want to be around it for the rest of my life.”

“Its all society is, the repressed sex drives of men, the objectification of women, their paranoia, the posturing, the macho stances, the beauty standard, its all just one charade masking a never en...”

“Listen in close, Wall Street Conquistadors, youre spreading like vapor up through peoples floors, youre moving en masse under the cracks of our doors and grabbing our children to work in your store...”

“I think the idea that we have anything to begin with is a lie we tell ourselves every day until we believe it. I think the law is there to enforce fictions that would not exist otherwise. Certain l...”

“As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions of problems are only possible to an individual, working ...”

“We are all alone, born alone, die alone, andin spite of True Romance magazineswe shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do no...”

“I never really understood the word loneliness. As far as I was concerned, I was in an orgy with the sky and the ocean, and with nature.”

“I was once driven north along Central Park, all the way from Chinatown. We hailed the cab in front of a building where Orthodox Jews still lived, so they shut down an elevator on Saturdays. In the ...”

“In my heart, I am American, and I believe I have a free will and can take charge of my own destiny.”

“The way of the consumerist culture is to spend so much energy chasing happiness that it has none left to be happy.”

“Just because I'm not forever by your side doesn't mean that's not precisely where I want to be.”

“A marriage takes work. You have to constantly put energy into it to keep it from falling apart. Going nowhere takes energy. Stability isn't what you get when you do nothing. It's what you can hope ...”

“Here's another poem,like all others before and after,dedicated to you.There isn't anything left to be saidbut I will spend my lifetrying to put you into words.You who is every goodness,every optimi...”