“Hinged to forgetfulness like a door,she slowly closed out of sight,and she was the woman I loved,but too many times she slept likea mechanical deer in my caresses,and I ached in the metal silenceof her dreams.”

“All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds.”

“I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come.”

“30 cents, two transfers, loveThinking hard about you I got on the bus and paid 30 cents car fare and asked the driver for two transfers before discovering that I was alone.”

“Moonlight drifts from overA hundred thousand milesTo fall upon a cemeteryIt reads a hundred epitaphsAnd then smiles at a nest ofBaby owls”

“For fear you will be aloneyou do so many thingsthat aren’t you at all.”

“Our names were made for us in another century.”

“all of us have a place in history. mine is clouds.”

“There was something dead in my heart.I tried to figure out what it was by the strength of the smell. I knew that it was not a lion or a sheep or a dog. Using logical deduction, I came to the conclusion that it was a mouse.I had a dead mouse in my heart.”

“Put the coffee on, bubbles, I'm coming home”

“I’ll affect you slowlyas if you were having a picnic in a dream. There will be no ants.It won’t rain.”