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So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully, if only you were interested in

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I didn't want any flowers, I only wanted To lie with my hands turned upand be utterly empty.How free it is, you have no idea how free - The peacefulne...more

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I also had a dim idea that if I walked the streets of New York by myself all night something of the city's mystery and magnificence might rub off on m...more

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I can't deceive myself that out of the bare stark realization that no matter how enthusiastic you are, no matter how sure that character is fate, noth...more

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And the danger is that in this move toward new horizons and far directions, that I may lose what I have now, and not find anything except loneliness.

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There is no living being on earth at this moment except myself. I could walk down the halls, and empty rooms would yawn mockingly at me from every sid...more

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How we need another soul to cling to.

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God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of "parties" with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces ...more