“Strangely, when I totally emerged from this slump I couldn't comprehend how I had almost drowned it it.”

“In Ecuador the Indian mate was too poor to buy Polaroid glasses but he saw the caudal fins of marlin long before my perfect eyes noticed anything. Benny played pool as if the cue stick emerged from his body. Not my alcohol & geometry. She was an asshole and I couldn't have loved her at gunpoint.”

“I was on the verge of jumping into one of those holes in life out of which we emerge a bit tattered and bloody, though we remain sure nonetheless that we had to make the jump.”

“Everyday I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about.”

“Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North”

“I had let my digust with teaching ruin my love of literature.”

“(from: Age Sixty-nine)There is this circle I walkthat I have learned to love.I hope one day to be a spiralbut to the birds I'm a circle.”