“I’d put more distance between us. Having us here, always together hasn’t allowed for any fondness to grow between us.”

“Whatever's between us is that kind of new.”

“For a hundred years or more the world, our world, has been dying. And not one man, in these last hundred years or so, has been crazy enough to put a bomb up the asshole of creation and set it off. The world is rotting away, dying piecemeal. But it needs the coup de grace, it needs to be blown to smithereens. Not one of us is intact, and yet we have in us all the continents and the seas between the continents and the birds of the air. We are going to put it down ― the evolution of this world which has died but which has not been buried.”

“Books are love letters (or apologies) passed between us, adding a layer of conversation beyond our spoken words.”

“Women say they have sexual thoughts too. They have no idea.It's the difference between shooting a bullet and throwing it.If they knew what we were really thinking, they'd never stopslapping us.”

“But you can’t put fight into a man’s guts if hehasn’t any fight in him. There are some of us so cowardly that youcan’t ever make heroes of us, not even if you frighten us to death.We know too much, maybe. There are some of us who don’t live in themoment, who live a little ahead, or a little behind.”

“The world is not to be put in order. The world is order. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.”