“And then the most evil idea came to me. The idea came to me unbidden as if there really were a Satan in the world and that Satan had come crawling along the stone floor towards me and put the idea in my mind.”
“The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth.”
“... lovemaking, if sincere, is one of the best ideas Satan put in the apple she gave to the serpent to give to Eve.”
“I will say, too, that lovemaking, if sincere, is one of the best ideas Satan put in the apple she gave to the serpent to give to Eve. The best idea in that apple, though, is making jazz.”
“This isn’t a good idea,” I whispered, watching his lips come toward me. “This is a fucking great idea,” he muttered. Then he kissed me.”
“Which came first, the mind or the idea of the mind? Have you never wondered? They arrived together. The mind is an idea.”