“He picked the wrong profession. Should've stayed a prostitute. He'd have made millions. - Cat”
“What is the cat?” he exclaimed. “It is a corrective. God, having made the mouse, said, ‘I’ve made a blunder.’ And he made the cat. The cat is the erratum of the mouse. The mouse, plus the cat, Is the revised and corrected proof of creation.”
“Not too many professions out there that value forgetfulness. Prostitution, maybe. Politics, of course.”
“Taxi-drivers in Frankfurt are said to dislike the annual Book Fair because literary folk, instead of being shuttled to prostitutes like respectable members of other convening professions, prefer to stay in their hotels and fuck one another”
“He's picked clean! Eaten by cats!”
“Maybe we should've stayed like that, just hanging out. Maybe we never should've kissed those Keeley boys.”