Love is a check, that can be forged, that can be cashed. Love is a payment that comes due..

Darkness coiled between what he wanted them to believe and the self he despised. It only made him more alone. How could you save someone when he didn….

I wondered where he was now whether I would ever hear him again. Whether someone would love him, someday show him what beauty mean't..

She was a beautiful woman dragging a crippled foot and I was that foot. I was bricks sewn into the hem of her clothes, I was a steel dress.

This involves more than I can discuss here, but do it. Read the writers of great prose dialogue-people like Robert Stone and Joan Didion. Compression….

Dawn has a way of casting a pall on any night magic..

at least if you were ignorant you could do wat you wanted. you had no idea wat had been acheived in the past. you were free instead of chewed at by b….

Find someone who will tremble for your touch, someone whose fingers are a poem..

Who are you? the band sang. I tried to remember but I really couldn't say..

Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to the world….

My hatred gives me strength..

I nodded. A man's world. But what did it mean? That men whistled and stared and yelled things at you, and you had to take it, or you get raped or bea….

The cake had a trick candle that wouldn't go out, so I didn't get my wish. Which was just that it would always be like this, that my life could be a ….

The nearest I'd come to feeling anything like God was the plan blue cloudless sky and a certain silence, but how do you pray to that?.

As an artist, you can never get what you want. What you do never approaches what you want it to be..

...You know the mistrust of heights is the mistrust of self, you don't know whether you're going to jump..

Their love as a dragonfly, skimming over echo park, stoppin to visit the lotus. Eating dreams and drinking blue sky..

Don't turn over the rocks if you don't want to see the pale creatures who live under them..

We parked in back and walked down the stairs with their polished brass railings, past the old-fashioned kitchen. We could see the chefs cooking. It s….

Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I've told you, nobody be….

Isn't it funny.I'm enjoying my hatred so much more than i ever enjoyed love. Love is temperamental. Tiring. It makes demands. Love uses you, changes ….