

“Love must be kind, and it must be a two-way street. Loyalty between two persons in an alliance of true friendship is a noble human endeavor. In true friendship, a human being finds strength. Good times or bad; the highest peak or the lowest valley in one’s life.”
― The Chiffon Trenches: A Memoir
― The Chiffon Trenches: A Memoir

“The older the man, the more my specialty. I knew that when I met God one day it would go well.”
― Animal
― Animal

“I got here the same way the coin did.”
― No Country for Old Men
― No Country for Old Men

“Empty, what does that word evoke? Shall I free-associate? Hollow, bereft, going clear. Empty is vapid, zero, of no interest. Empty is absence. So different than the valence the word carried for me! Empty was promise. Empty was power. Empty was the ultimate security.”
― Empty
― Empty

“Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.”
― The Girls at 17 Swann Street
― The Girls at 17 Swann Street

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