There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

The trouble you can get into, just cause you want 5, 000 bucks.

The trouble you can get into, just cause you want 5, 000 bucks.

The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.

The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.

One often calms one's grief by recounting it.

One often calms one's grief by recounting it.

Nostalgia: When you find the present tense and past perfect.

Nostalgia: When you find the present tense and past perfect.

I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.

I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.

There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.

There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.

I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose read more

I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.

I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagus
With tigery stripes, and a face on it
Round read more

I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagus
With tigery stripes, and a face on it
Round as the moon, to stare up.
I want to be looking at them when they come
Picking among the dumb minerals, the roots.
I see them already-the pale, star-distance faces.
Now they are nothing, they are not even babies.
I imagine them without fathers or mothers, like the first gods.
They will wonder if I was important.