"I saw her, standing in the crowd, forlorn, dissatisfied, dark, unpleasantly strange."

"It's only later you learn to lean your head in the lap of God, and rest in love."

"All in life, prime, young joy days, riches of sixteen, I sneaked off to the lazy unresponsive girl three miles across…"

"I grieved inside that I had to give her up for Maggie. But I couldn't have Mary and Magdalene both so I had to decide…"

"To my utter amazement I saw out of the corner of my eye the colored boy laid out almost flat on the floor in a low sl…"

"Fluting spring was racing through the corridors and ritual alleys of my sacred brain in holy life and making me wake …"

"I'm sure gonna get you tonight — aint gonna be like it used to be with you — I'm gonna find out about you at last."

"She laughed in his face, he slammed the door shut, put out lights, drove her home, drove the car back skittering craz…"

"We Earth Men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things. The only reason we didn’t set up hot-dog stands in the …"

"Yes, their cities are good. They knew how to blend art into their living. It’s always been a thing apart for American…"