“We could see the children's toys here and there, and we saw a game that the children had made themselves out of dirt, deer antlers and abalone shells, but the game was so strange that only children could tell what it was. Perhaps it wasn't a game at all, only the grave of a game.”

“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.”