“It's strange to be so physically close to someone who's so distant”

“These poems were written by someone I once was and who is so distant to me now that I scarcely recognize him anymore. They speak for a time and a feeling which of course has gone from me but for which I still have a close affection and kinship.”

“It really kind of sucked to be close to someone for so long and then suddenly not be anything anymore.”

“And so I set these things down before the onset of the first of a thousand small physical degradations as, in a still-distant suburb, Death strides whistling towards me.”

“They have gone. And the tunnel is about to close. So, boys, I am looking for someone to blame.”

“Sometimes you get so close to someone you end up on the other side of them.”

“I still care about people but it would be so much easier not to care. I don't want to get to close: I don't like to touch things, that's why my work is so distant from myself”

“It was so rare to find someone who was both so young and so wise, both so fresh and so jaded.”

“Sometimes it is better to have someone you mistrust close to you, so that you can keep an eye on him - Chiron”

“It's you who are strange. Talking to you is like talking to someone who has no shadow.”