"I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come."

"... the Coleman lantern is the symbol of the camping craze that is currently sweeping America, with its unholy white …"

"A friend came over to the house a few days ago and read one of my poems. He came back today and asked to read the sam…"

"I like to think (it has to be!) of a cybernetic ecology where we are free of our labors and joined back to nature, re…"

"if a girl likes me a lot and starts getting real nervous and suddenly begins asking me funny questions and looks sad …"

"Forsaken, fucking in the cold, eating each other, lost runny noses, complaining all the time like so many people that…"

"Thinking hard about you I got on the bus and paid 30 cents car fare and asked the driver for two transfers before dis…"

"Everybody wants to go to bed with everybody else, they're lined up for blocks, so I'll go to bed with you. They won't…"

"There are seductions that should be in the Smithsonian Institute, right next to The Spirit of St. Louis."

"Everything smelled of sheep. The dandelions were suddenly more sheep than flower, each petal reflecting wool and the …"