“To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.”

“A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.”

“Under the seams runs the pain.”

“Outside, the natural world was enjoying a moment of total strength.”

“...some hours later they were downat the railroad tracksstanding close together by the switch lights. The huge night moved overheadscattering drops of itself.”

“[Short Talk on the Sensation of Airplane Takeoff] Well you know I wonder, it could be love running toward my life with its arms up yelling let’s buy it what a bargain!”

“The fact that Anna is somewherehaving coffee or a dreamis an assault on me.I hate these moments of poverty.What does man eat? ask the phenomenologists.Like the dogs, names,down there,starving.”