“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”

“There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.”

“Is it the sea you hear in me,Its dissatisfactions?Or the voice of nothing, that was you madness?--from "Elm", written 19 April 1962”

“If you love her", I said, "you'll love somebody else someday.”

“My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.”

“You are a dream; I hope I never meet you.”

“I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas, as if whatever it was the pine boughs and the candles and the silver and gilt-ribboned presents and the birch-log fires and the Christmas turkey and the carols at the piano promised never came to pass.”