“escape from the black widow spider is a miracle as great as art.what a web she can weave slowly drawing you to hershe'll embrace you then when she's satisfied she'll kill youstill in her embrace and suck the blood from you. ”

“there is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy”

“jan was an excellent fuck...she had a tight pussy and she took it like it was a knife that was killing her.”

“I can't blame her. butwonder why she's here with me? where are the other guys? how can you be lucky? having someone theothers have abandoned?”

“But she projected vitality - you knew that she was there.”

“nothing can save you except writing. it keeps the walls from failing.”

“I went over to see Marina two or three or four times a week. I knew as long as I could see the girl I would be all right…. Soon after, I got a letter from Fay. She and the child were living in a hippie commune in New Mexico. It was a nice place, she said. Marina would be able to breathe there. She enclosed a little drawing the girl had made for me.”