“There was an omnivorous intellect that won him the family sobriquet of Walking Encyclopedia.”

“With food still scarce,there was no longer a right to exist. You needed to earn your spot. ”

“Every moment, as we walk on this earth, we are watched and judged by the eyes of the universe.”

“The agony of the dead is with us, and we hear their screams and walk among their ghosts. We cannot avert our eyes or plug up our ears. We must bear witness and speak for those who cannot speak. We have only one chance to get it right.”

“Before the eyes shutthis knife shines snow-bright once more through the inner organsas using a nuclear bomb to light a cigarsends lung cancer across the earthto parting lovers”

“I, too, eat steamed human-blood buns.”

“The body is intelligent, I think. It knows how to say what it means to be alive better than the mind ever will.”