“Said the straight man to the late man Where have you been I've been here and I've been there And I've been in betweenI talk to the wind My words are all carried away I talk to the wind The wind does not hear The wind cannot hear”

“It had been like swallowing a gust of October wind.”

“I haven't been thinking at all, not really, I've just been following the steps. The recipe. & this is like turning a page in the cookbook & finding the next one blank.”

“Only the wind shatters the silence. I have been here before choking in solitude.”

“They say suicides and murderers go to Hell. If so, I will know my way around, because I've been there for the last eight years.”

“Just have the patience to hear me out,and I will tell you what I've been about.”

“Writing is seduction. Good talk is part of seduction. If not so, why do so many couples who start the evening at dinner wind up in bed?”