“Peace and Love, get high and fly with the dove.”

“Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It's peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.”

“It's a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.”

“The sting of a fly, the Congolese say, can launch the end of the world. How simply things begin.”

“I stir in bed and the memories rise out of me like a buzz of flies from a carcass. I crave to be rid of them...”

“High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.”

“At some point in my life I'd honestly hoped love would rescue me from the cold, drafty castle I lived in. But at another point, much earlier I think, I'd quietly begun to hope for nothing at all in the way of love, so as not to be disappointed. It works. It gets to be a habit.”