“Turn away, if you can. Return you will with hunger peaked and primed.”

Source: The Invention of Wings

Source: War of the Foxes

Source: Pygmalion

"My Feelings" (p. 179)
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)

Young Miles (1997), "Author's Afterword"

Song Do You Know the Way to San Jose

"A Pinch of Salt".
Fairies and Fusiliers (1917)
Context: Poet, never chase the dream.
Laugh yourself and turn away.
Mask your hunger, let it seem
Small matter if he come or stay;
But when he nestles in your hand at last,
Close up your fingers tight and hold him fast.

Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept