“All new life labors out of the very bowels of darkness.”
“We leave Pippa behind, standing in the dark, teeming bowels of the camp, while the sun begins to stain the sky electric, and from all sides the guns draw closer.”
“There are those who labor in the darkness, that the rest of us might live in the light.”
“Evan Handler's new book is simply wonderful. He pulls you inside his life, and you come out his very close friend.”
“It is not to be thought that the life of darkness is sunk in misery and lost as if in sorrowing. There is no sorrowing. For sorrow is a thing that is swallowed up in death, and death and dying are the very life of the darkness.”
“If one's bowels move, one is happy, and if they don't move, one is unhappy. That is all there is to it.”