“In loving life you love what can't survive…”
Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991)
“In loving life you love what can't survive…”
Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991)
How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
“Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.”
Fear of Flying (1973)
“Having a baby with him meant marrying that face forever.”
How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
“Everyone's a little crazy when you get inside their head… it's only a matter of degree.”
Fear of Flying (1973)
“What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to deceive?”
How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
No one is attempting to cuckold a husband or humiliate a wife. No one is trying to prove anything or get anything out of anyone. The zipless fuck is the purest thing there is. And it is rarer than the unicorn. And I have never had one.
Fear of Flying (1973)
“My body was flesh, which was only one step removed from shit, from clay, from dust.”
How to Save Your Own Life (1977)