“Nosferatu is the daddy of modern American sex.”

“It is the job of the market to turn the base material of our emotions into gold.”

“The richness of our ethnic insults vocabulary was wide and deep. It reflected, all too easily, the more elaborate predjiduces of our parents (not my parents), which in their rabid form, had already resulted in tribal bloodbaths.”

“It's still a mystery to me exactly how I learned the language. [But] I was 19 years old and I had very urgent things to tell girls.”

“Nostalgia is masochism and masochism is something masochists love to share.”

“The fact is we all know that there exists in the world an order different from that in which we pass our days. If we reveal its existence people think that we are crazy.”

“Our secrets, odd or not, are the pins that keep our inner life in place: the inform our psyche with meaning.”