“Lots of things are more than what they seem in a purely physical sense.”

“There are things that can harm a lot more than physically.”

“Daylight seemed then to be the physical manifestation of common sense.”

“There are much more terrible things than physical injury.”

“This is all a figurative way of speaking about what is unmentionable. What is unmentionable is pure fuck and pure cunt; it must be mentioned only in de luxe editions, otherwise the world will fall apart. What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse. But fuck, the real thing, cunt, the real thing, seems to contain some unidentified element which is far more dangerous than nitroglycerine.”

“What if the places you went and the things you encountered in your work were more interesting than what was available in the physical world around you?”