I joined a health spa recently. They had a sign for "Free Weights. " So I took a couple.
No matter how dark the night, somehow the sun rises once again and all shadows are chased away.
[When working on a book] I have an almost complete detachment from the world I live in, a sort of armor against distraction. I talk to people, move about, appear on the surface much as usual. But later on I have only a confused memory of what has happened during that period.
The tragedian will always be a limited tragedian if he has not learned how to laugh. The comedian who cannot weep will never touch the highest levels of mirth.
The fundamental truth of democracy is the belief that the real pleasures of life are increased by sharing them.
I watch the confusion of friends all numb with love moving like stray dogs to the anthem of night long conversations of pulsing rhythms and random voltage voices in spite of themselves graceful as these raindrops creeping spermlike across the car window.