“she was consumed by 3 simple things:drink, despair, loneliness; and 2 more:youth and beauty”

“She was desperate and she was choosey at the same time and, in a way, beautiful, but she didn't have quite enough going for her to become what she imagined herself to be.”

“Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.”

“she is no longerthe beautiful womanshe was. she sendsphotos of herselfsitting upon a rockby the oceanalone and damned.I could have hadher once. I wonderif she thinks Icould havesaved her?”

“there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock”

“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”

“it is good to be sitting some placein public at 2:30 in the afternoonwithout getting the flesh ripped fromyour bones.”