on youth:

Don't try to be realistic until you've tried all that's impossible.

ON THE LIRR
Wonderful! That moment first thrust from slumber, the world ablaze, beautiful, new. Who was she? What will happen to us? Pieces of imagination still caught in cobwebs of semi-conciousness. When both the reality just blinked away and the world seen through burning eyes seem equally as true.

Then memory returns, and blissful dream images flicker away in florescent light. You're awake now. Its your stop. Get up and get on with life.

HOW TO LIVE
We, the rational, admire the exhuberant and envy their conviction. But when they fall (from their ephemeral heights inevitably into dispair), we sigh in pity, vindicated in having never ventured to believe or feel anything in earnest.