“The cause of the world's woe is birth, the cure of the world's woe is a bent stick.”

“When I got better I realized what a rat he was, but then I had to understand the impossible complexity of his life, how he had to leave me there, sick, to get on with his wives and woes.”

“But on top of all that, the feelings about Princess, I'd also gone through an entire year of celibacy based on my feeling that lust was the direct cause of birth which was the direct cause of suffering and death and I had really no lie come to a point where I regarded lust as offensive and even cruel. "Pretty girls make graves," was my saying, whenever I'd had to turn my head around involuntarily to stare at the in­comparable pretties of Indian Mexico.”

“Ripples in the upside down lake of the void . . . The bottom of the world is gold and the world is upside down”

“What a horror it would have been if the world was real, because if the world was real, it would be immortal.”

“stick at it like a benni addict”

“Hateful bitch of a world, it wouldn't ever last.”