“Neither of them spoke, they simply stood there, sending, receiving, imprinting the feel of each on the other, indelibly.”

“It's clear to me now that I have been moving toward you and you toward me for a long time. Though neither of us was aware of the other before we met, there was a kind of mindless certainty bumming blithely along beneath our ignorance that ensured we would come together. Like two solitary birds flying the great prairies by celestial reckoning, all of these years and lifetimes we have been moving toward one another.”

“Anyone who can feel that way about a woman is worth lovin himself.”

“Sometime I'm going to do an essay called 'The Virtues of Amateurism' for all of those people who wish they earned their living in the arts. The market kills more artistic people than anything else. It's a world of safety out there, for most people. They want safety, the magazines and manufacturers give them safety, give them homogeneity, give them the familiar and comfortable, don't challenge them.”

“The old dreams were good dreams; they didn't work out but I'm glad I had them.”

“There are songs that come free from the blue-eyed grass, from the dust of a thousand country roads. This is one of them.”

“Once a person knows a kiss and a kind word, you can't blame him for never wanting to live without them again.”