“The less important you are in an office, the more they expect the happy smile.”

“The less there was to see, the harder he looked, the more he saw.”

“Even when you self-destruct, you want to fail more, lose more, die more than others, stink more than others.”

“A surface separates inside from out and belongs no less to one than the other.”

“it's not the sex you think I've had. it's the sex i want. that's what you smell on me. because the more I look at you, the more A know about us both. And the more A want to have sex with you. because there's a certain kind of sex that has an element of cleansing. it's the antidote to disillusion. the counterpoison.”

“The future is always a wholeness, a sameness. We're all tall and happy there,' she said. 'This is why the future fails. It always fails. It can never be the cruel happy place we want to make it.”

“It was important for him to believe that he'd spent his life among people who kept missing the point.”