Yr crown has been bought and paid for. All you have to do is put it on yr head - James Baldwin

The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

I was in his hands, he called me by the thunder at my ear. I was in his hands: I was being changed; all that I could do was cling to him. I did not realize, until I realized it, that I was also kissing him, that everything was breaking and changing and turning in me and moving toward him.

I am beginning to feel like part of a travelling circus.