"I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people who interest me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desi…"

"I was surprised, as always, by how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility."

"I was a young brakeman and I was going to save the world with poetry."

"I'm a cosmos, not a world. I'm a world, not a cosmos. I'm a."

"I'm a fool, but I'm a happy fool."