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„Всё, что я пишу, это ответ человека на вопросы двадцатого века.“

„Я не хочу сочинять ни сына «Рыбалки в Америке», ни внука.“

„У всех нас своя роль в истории. Моя — облако.“

„Лягушки надоели мне почти так же, как солнце.“

„…у пруда я становился все меньше и меньше; всё больше и больше растворялся в темноте летней травы, пока не исчез совсем — в 32-х годах, что прошли с того дня и выбросили меня здесь и сейчас.“

„Я молча смотрел, как сияет в темноте пруда их гостиная. Она была похожа на бесхитростную историю со счастливым концом — милая послевоенная американская готика,
когда телевизор еще не успел искалечить американское воображение и не научился прятать людей в домах, удерживая от своих фантазий — во всем их величии.“

„А если серьёзно, то я всегда мечтал написать книгу, которая заканчивалась бы словом «майонез».“

„Слова — цветы из ничего. Я люблю тебя.“

„Я всегда любил писать стихи, но это требует времени, как долгое ухаживание, которое приведёт к счастливому браку, потому что нужно сначала как следует узнать друг друга. Я писал стихи семь лет для того, чтобы научиться составлять слова в предложения, но на самом деле я всегда хотел сочинять романы и понимал, что не смогу этого делать, пока не научусь составлять слова. Поэзия была для меня в то время любовницей, а не женой.“

“We walked back to iDEATH, holding hands. Hands are very nice things, especially after they have travelled back from making love.”

“I like to think
(it has to be!)
of a cybernetic ecology
where we are free of our labors
and joined back to nature,
returned to our mammal
brothers and sisters,
and all watched over
by machines of loving grace.”

“All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds.”

“I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise.”

“I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end.”

“Finding is losing something else.
I think about, perhaps even mourn,
what I lost to find this”

“Karma Repair Kit Items 1-4.

1. Get enough food to eat,
and eat it.

2. Find a place to sleep where it is quiet,
and sleep there.

3. Reduce intellectual and emotional noise
until you arrive at the silence of yourself,
and listen to it.

4.”

“I'll tell you about it because I am here and you are distant.”

“I'm in a constant process of thinking about things.”

“Boo, Forever

Spinning like a ghost
on the bottom of a
top,
I'm haunted by all
the space that I
will live without
you.”

“In Watermelon Sugar the deeds were done and done again as my life is done in watermelon sugar.”

“I’ll affect you slowly
as if you were having a picnic in a dream.
There will be no ants.
It won’t rain.”

“I had a good-talking candle last night in my bedroom. I was very tired but I wanted somebody to be with me, so I lit a candle and listened to its comfortable voice of light until I was asleep.”

“Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing there, how can anything go wrong?”

“If you are thinking about something that happened a long time ago:
Somebody asked you a question and you did not know the answer.
That is my name.”

“I feel as if I am an ad
for the sale of a haunted house:

18 rooms
$37,000
I’m yours
ghosts and all.”

“Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream.
I'm not, she said.”

“One day
Time will die
And love will bury it”

“I saw thousands of pumpkins last night
come floating in on the tide,
bumping up against the rocks and
rolling up on the beaches;
it must be Halloween in the sea”

“The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster

When you take your pill
it's like a mine disaster.
I think of all the people
lost inside you.”

“Hinged to forgetfulness like a door,
she slowly closed out of sight,
and she was the woman I loved,
but too many times she slept like
a mechanical deer in my caresses,
and I ached in the metal silence
of her dreams.”

“the sweet juices of your mouth
are like castles bathed in honey.
i've never had it done so gently before.
you have put a circle of castles
around my penis and you swirl them
like sunlight on the wings of birds.”

“He created his own Kool Aid reality and was able to illuminate himself by it.”

“The Beautiful Poem"

I go to bed in Los Angeles thinking
about you.

Pissing a few moments ago
I looked down at my penis
affectionately.

Knowing it has been inside
you twice today makes me
feel beautiful.”

“All girls should have a poem
written for them even if
we have to turn this God-damn world
upside down to do it.”

“If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one huge gallows.”

“I’m haunted by all
the space that I
will live without
you.”

“I don't know these people and they aren't my flowers.”

“It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult.”