“I’ve been feeling something else. Like I’m about to be suckedinto something powerful and painful.”

“I’ve always been about pain. In fact, I’m quite incapable of writing anything else, nor would I want to. Where does it come from? Probably the life I’ve lived.”

“You’ve got me feeling like you’re that something I’ve been missing.”

“If this is about working through your pain with me, I gave what I’m gonna give to that. If this is about something else, then I’ll be spending the night.”

“I'm thinking of a queer feeling I sometimes get, a feeling that I've got something to say and the power to say it -- only I don't know what it is, and I can't make use of the power. If there was some different way of writing...Or else something else to write about.”

“It feels so separate, like I’ve touched something that’s taken the color out of me. Or maybe I’m in color now and they’re in black and white.”