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Her voice, delicate as it was, had the strength to it that made one realize why a teacup can stay in one piece for centuries, defying the changes of history and the turmoil of man.

He’d had enough suffering right now to last him forever with plenty left over for others if they didn’t have enough and wanted to have some more.

We could see the children’s toys here and there, and we saw a game that the children had made themselves out of dirt, deer antlers and abalone shells, but the game was so strange that only children could tell what it was. Perhaps it wasn’t a game at all, only the grave of a game.

I hated to interrupt her. I know how much a dream can be worth, but, alas... “Hello.

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

It’s all right,” she said. “It’s all right.” That was really a very nice sound. There should be a bird that does that: that sings when you are impotent.

It’s good you’re happy,” she said. She said the word happy as if she were looking at it from a great distance through a telescope.

I guess the last remaining question is: What about the sombrero? It’s still there, lying in the street but its temperature had returned to -24 degrees and fortunately for America it stayed there. Millions of tourists have walked all around it but not one of them has seen it, though it is in plain sight. How can you miss a very cold white sombrero lying in the Main Street of a town? In other words: There is more to life than meets the eye.

I think my mind is going. It is changing into a cranial junkyard. I have a huge pile of rusty tin cans the size of Mount Everest and about a million old cars that are going nowhere but between my ears.

You sons-of-bitches all have bicycles!” he said, “I’ll have a bicycle someday!

Don’t worry about him, the girl said. He’s rich. He has 3,859 Rolls Royces.

New furniture has no character whereas old furniture always has a past. New furniture is always mute, but old furniture can almost talk. You can almost hear it talking about the good times and troubles it’s seen. I think there is a Country and Western song about talking furniture, but I can’t remember the name.

Hinged to forgetfulness like a door, she slowly closed out of sight, and she was the woman I loved, but too many times she slept like a mechanical deer in my caresses, and I ached in the metal silence of her dreams.

Her hair dreamt about being very carefully combed in the morning.

The Forgotten Works just go on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on. You get the picture. It’s a big place, much bigger than we are.

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. God rest their souls.

The cat’s purring was the motor that ran the Japanese woman’s dreaming.

I sat down and looked the bus over to see who was there, and it took me about a minute to realize that there was something very wrong with that bus, and it took the other people about the same period to realize that there was something very wrong with the bus, and the thing that was wrong was me.

There was no logical reason why he did not have eggs in the house. It was just that he felt slightly uncomfortable when they were there. Also, he did not like to buy eggs. Something about the cartons put him off and he did not like the fact that they came in dozens.

I think that I would find automobiles a little more interesting if they carried their own parking space with them.

It’s pretty hard to have faith when everybody is trying to lock you up.

Watcha doin? If you’re like me, you’re doin nothin, but you’re doin it so well that everybody thinks you’re doin somethin.

You’re not fooling anyone by taking your clothes off when you go to bed.

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

We call everything a river here. We are that kind of people.

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?

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.

I do not care to be esthetically tickled in a fancy theater surrounded by an audience drenched in the confident perfume of culture. I can’t afford it.

For the rest of my life I’ll be thinking about that hamburger. I’ll be sitting there at the counter, holding it in my hands with tears streaming down my cheeks. The waitress will be looking away because she doesn’t like to see kids crying when they are eating hamburgers...

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.

I fished upstream coming ever closer and closer to the narrow staircase of the canyon. Then I went up into it as if I were entering a department store. I caught three trout in the lost and found department.

She had a beautiful laugh which was like rain water pouring over daffodils made from silver.

I thought about it for awhile, hiding it from the rest of my mind. But I didn’t ruin my birthday by secretly thinking about it too hard.

I’ll tell you about it because I am here and you are distant.

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 and led out of her.

I saw thousands of pumpkins last night come floating in on the tide, bumping up against the rocks and rolling up on the beaches; it must be Halloween in the sea.

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

She opened her purse which was like a small autumn field and near the fallen branches of an old apple tree, she found her keys.

Hands are very nice things, especially after they have travelled back from making love.

The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster When you take your pill it’s like a mine disaster. I think of all the people lost inside you.

Language does not leave fossils, at least not until it has become written.

There are seductions that should be in the Smithsonian Institute, right next to The Spirit of St. Louis.

The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs.

I believe I saw a woodcock. He had a long bill like putting a fire hydrant into a pencil sharpener, then pasting it onto a bird and letting the bird fly away in front of me with this thing on its face for no other purpose than to amaze me.

If you will die for me, I will die for you and our graves will be like two lovers washing their clothes together in a laundromat If you will bring the soap I will bring the bleach.

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 newspaper,” and put the coin in my hand, but never came back.

There are spiders living comfortably in my house while the wind howls outside. They aren’t bothering anybody. If I were a fly, I’d have second thoughts, but I’m not, so I don’t.

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.

You’ve got some ‘Star-Spangled’ nails in your coffin, kid. That’s what they’ve done for you, son.

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

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