“It was a maddening image and the only way to whip it was to hang on until dusk and banish the ghosts with rum.”
“Their numbers swell like viruses until they madden someone with a large army.”
“There is only one success: to be able to spend life in your own way and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.”
“The memory fades, and I’m left hanging on to the ghosts of hiswords.”
“. . . the only way to shake your ghosts was to find them . . .”
“Only, in Haiti, I realized, is it possible to drink rum and haggle with a god.”