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The bookstore was a parking lot for used graveyards. Thousands of graveyards were parked in rows like cars. Most of the books were out of print, and no one wanted to read them any more and the people who had read the books had died or forgotten about them, but through the organic process of music the books had become virgins again.

I'm in a constant process of thinking about things.

I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come.

All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds.

Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing there, how can anything go wrong?

It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult.

Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords.

If you are thinking about something that happened a long time ago: Somebody asked you a question and you did not know the answer. That is my name.

Finding is losing something else. I think about, perhaps even mourn, what I lost to find this

I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise.

In Watermelon Sugar the deeds were done and done again as my life is done in watermelon sugar.

All girls should have a poem _x000D_ written for them even if _x000D_ we have to turn this goddamn world _x000D_ upside down to do it.

I like to think_x000D_ (it has to be!)_x000D_ of a cybernetic ecology_x000D_ where we are free of our labors_x000D_ and joined back to nature,_x000D_ returned to our mammal_x000D_ brothers and sisters,_x000D_ and all watched over_x000D_ by machines of loving grace.

I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it.

A friend came over to the house _x000D_ a few days ago and read one of my poems. _x000D_ He came back today and asked to read the _x000D_ same poem over again. After he finished _x000D_ reading it, he said, It makes me want to write poetry.

The heart is something else. Nobody knows what's going to happen,' I said

I wonder_x000D_if there are any catfish_x000D_in this pond? It seems like_x000D_a perfect place for them.

I don't want my daughter to be educated. I think women should just be decorative.

My teachers could easily have ridden with Jesse James for all the time they stole from me.

I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end.

There was something dead in my heart. I tried to figure out what it was by the strength of the smell. I knew that it was not a lion or a sheep or a dog. Using logical deduction, I came to the conclusion that it was a mouse. I had a dead mouse in my heart.