“A river of images and thoughts and feelings, dirtied and polluted so that no one could drink from it without gagging.”
“in truth man is polluted river. one must be a sea to receive a polluted river without becoming defiled.”
“In truth, man is a polluted river. One must be a sea to receive a polluted river without becoming defiled. I bring you the Superman! He is that sea; in him your great contempt can be submerged.”
“Love is a river. Drink from it.”
“We could take his gag away, thought Isaac, and he wouldn't scream . . . but then he might speak . . . He left the gag in place.”
“Baby, that's so queer I could gag on the beauty of it.”