“Outside the rain continued its cadenced and indifferent commentary.”

“History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.”

“She makes me feel like it's raining outside”

“The only noise now was the rain, pattering softly with the magnificent indifference of nature for the tangled passions of humans.”

“A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.”

“The rain, the rain, the rain. You can't even hear it outside the window but still it's a sad thing. Rain, the grade school teachers say, makes the trees and flowers grow, but we're not trees and flower, and so many grade school teachers are single.”

“Mac continued to write scathing commentary on assorted hypocrisies in high places and low, without which hypocrisies, he cheerfully conceded, civilized life would be impossible.”

“[T]he rain was making the finest sound that we, who live much outside of houses, ever hear.”

“Love, if you love me,
lie next to me.
Be for me, like rain,
the getting out

of the tiredness, the fatuousness, the semi-
lust of intentional indifference.
Be wet
with a decent happiness.”

“The good rain knows its season.”