Paul: Grownups can forget. Children can’t.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

Love is the joy of the good and the wonder of the wise.

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.

[To seagulls] Would you lot just shut up! You’re rats with wings! – Nigel

Life and death, energy and peace, if i stop today it was still worth it. Even the terrible mistakes, that I have made and would have unmade if I could. The pains that have burned me and scarred my soul, it was worth it for having been allowed to walk where I’ve walked. Which was to hell on earth, heaven on earth, back again, into, under, far in between, through it, in it and above…

Gia Marie Carangi 1960-1986