"Ham on Rye" Quotes

I was sentimental about many things: a woman's shoes under the bed; one hairpin left behind on the dresser; the way they said, 'I'm going to pee.'

I was just a kid, and I didn't know how the world worked.

I was glad I wasn't in love, that I wasn't happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything.

I was simply trying to get back to the land of the nuts.

I was thinking about women. Women, women, women. I was even thinking about my mother.

I was very careful never to be without a book, for that would be like being without food or drink.

I would rather do anything than write.

I'll never be a poet. I have a life.

I'm not too interested in the afterlife or the underworld. I'm interested in this life.

In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we're no more than castrated cats.