If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one huge gallows..

The sun was like a huge 50-cent piece that someone had poured kerosene on and then had lit with a match, and said, "Here, hold this while I go get a ….

Gee, You're so Beautiful That It's Starting to Rain Oh, Marcia, I want your long blonde beauty to be taught in high school, so kids will learn that G….

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

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

This morning I saw a coyote walking through the sagebrush right at the very edge of the ocean ― next stop China. The coyote was acting like he was in….

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..

Her sunny side was always up..

Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing ….

The 1960s: A lot of people remember hating President Lyndon Baines Johnson and loving Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison, depending on the point of view. ….

Our names were made for us in another century..

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

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 d….

Once upon a time there was a dwarf knight who only had fifty words to live in and they were so fleeting that he only had time to put on a suit of arm….

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

Night was coming on in, borrowing the light. It had started out borrowing just a few cents worth of the light, but now it was borrowing thousands of ….

Elizabeth's voice had a door in it. When you opened that door you found another door, and that door opened yet another door. All the doors were nice ….

We looked like a parade barely moving toward YOU MIGHT GET LOST..

I don't know these people and they aren't my flowers..

There are not too many fables about man's misuse of sunflower seeds..

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 ….