“we only asked for leopards to guardour thinning dreams.”

“I was so thin I could slice bread with my shoulderblades, only I seldom had bread”

“That's the way it ends. The thin edge of the wedge.”

“We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.”

“it's colder than hell (yes) butthe blankets are thin,and the pulled-down shadesare as full of holes as love is.”

“Daddy,' my mother asked, 'aren’t we going to run out of gas?'No there’s plenty of god-damned gas.'Where are we going?'I’m going to get some god-damed oranges!”

“Once in a dream I saw a snake swallowing its own tail, it swallowed and swallowed until it got halfway round, and there it stopped and there it stayed, it was stuffed with its own self. Some fix, that.We only have ourselves to go on, and it’s enough…”