“That's the way it ends. The thin edge of the wedge.”

“we only asked for leopards to guardour thinning dreams.”

“it's colder than hell (yes) butthe blankets are thin,and the pulled-down shadesare as full of holes as love is.”

“I was so thin I could slice bread with my shoulderblades, only I seldom had bread”

“I will always carry you, inside, outside, on my fingertips, and at brain edges.”

“The apartment was built at the edge of a high cliff so that when you looked out the back window it seemed as if you were twelve floors up instead of four. It was very much like living on the edge of the world - a last resting place before the final big drop.”

“my greatest problem was stamps, envelopes, paper and wine, with the world on the edge of World War II.”