“the cat unsheathes its clawsthe world turns--from "Resovle", written 1956”

“I hurl my heart to halt his pace.--from "Pursuit", written 1956”

“we shall board our imagined ship and wildly sail among sacred islands of the mad till death shatters the fabulous stars and makes us real.--from "Tale of A Tub", written 1956”

“The shot [in the 1956 film Written on the Wind] with Dorothy Malone walking down the stairs makes all rock videos ever after resemble forgotten, anemic nuns.”

“Books are written little by little...as the cat eats the fish.”

“The earth turned to bring us closer,it spun on itself and within us,and finally joined us together in this dreamas written in the Symposium.Nights passed by, snowfalls and solstices;time passed in minutes and millennia.An ox cart that was on its way to Nineveharrived in Nebraska.A rooster was singing some distance from the world,in one of the thousand pre-lives of our fathers.The earth was spinning with its music carrying us on board;it didn't stop turning a single momentas if so much love, so much that's miraculouswas only an adagio written long agoin the Symposium's score.”