“I am bigger than anything that can happen to me.All these things, sorrow, misfortune, and suffering, are outside my door.I am in the house, and I have the key.”

“Any fool can write a book and most of them are doing it; but it takes brains to build a house.”

“To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.”

“the last cigarettes are smoked, the loaves are sliced,and lest this be taken for wry sorrow,drown the spider in wine.you are much more than simply dead:I am a dish for your ashes,I am a fist for your vanished air.the most terrible thing about lifeis finding it gone.”

“Ihave a face like a washrag. I singlove songs and carry steel.I would rather die than cry. I can'tstand hounds can't live without them.I hang my head against the whiterefrigerator and want to scream likethe last weeping of life forever butI am bigger than the mountains.”

“Don't be afraid to hear me. Don't shrink from anything I say. I am like one who died young: all my life might have been.”

“I am not a snob; it is simply that I am not interested with what most people have to say, or what they want to do — mostly with my time.”