“For where did Dante get the material for his Hell, if not from this actual world of ours?”

“Our is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.”

“Dante's definition of hell: proximity without intimacy. From the Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing”

“Where the conditions to which material progress... are most fully realized... where wealth is greatest... we find the deepest poverty, the sharpest struggle for existence, and the most enforced idleness... Material progress does not merely fail to relieve poverty - it actually produces it... This association of progress with poverty is the great enigma of our times. It is the central fact from which spring industrial, social, and political difficulties that perplex the world and with which statesmanship and philanthropy and education grapple in vain.”

“Surreal. It was his word of the week. "This must be one of the circles of hell Dante accidentally left off the list.”

“Because it was all I wanted to fucking know. It was all I wanted to know in this fucking world: where did the beautiful boys go? Where did the beautiful boys go? Where the hell did they go?”