“T was in a blue mood , his open reflections on the isloation of his life floating like Jazz notes under a "pink moon”

“Being out in the sunlight brightens my mood, especially if that sunlight is reflected off the moon.”

“Picasso had his pink period and his blue period. I am in my blonde period right now.”

“I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his eyes.”

“He guides my fingers under his hair to the nape of his neck. To the shape of a crescent moon.”

“Terenty comes to them, makes the sign of the cross over them, and puts bread under their heads. And no one sees his love. It is seen only by the moon which floats in the sky and peeps caressingly through the holes in the wall of the deserted barn."from "A Day in the Country”