“Two murders and an act of arson. Junior was being a bold boy this evening”
“If rape or arson, poison or the knifeHas wove no pleasing patterns in the stuffOf this drab canvas we accept as life -It is because we are not bold enough!”
“the juniors were acting different because they are now the seniors. They even had T-shirts made. I don't know who plans these things.”
“This wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy, this Senior Junior, giant dwarf...Cupid.”
“Arson is a respected profession among certain subcultures in Jersey, and the good ones don't get caught. The good ones channel lightning and mysterious acts of spontaneous combustion.”
“What distinguishes genocide from murder, and even from acts of political murder that claim as many victims, is the intent. The crime is wanting to make a people extinct. The idea is the crime.”