“Find someone to push him ever sunward. There's always something you're not supposed to see but it is a condition of growing up that you will see it.”

“Something out of childhood whistles through this space, a sense of games and half-made selves, but it's not that you're pretending to be someone else. You're pretending to be exactly who you are. That's the curious thing.”

“Sex finds us. Sex sees through us. That's why it's so shattering. It strips us of appearances.”

“That's why people take vacations. No to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things.”

“What you see is not what wee se. What you see is distracted by memory, by being who you are, all this time, for all these years.”

“It's there in your face, all of it, the way it rarely shows in any face. What do I see? Something lazy, sexy and insatiable.”

“World is supposed to mean something that's self-contained. but nothing is self-contained.”