“Creativity. Taking something enormously strange and somehow making it strangely familiar.”

“one motion of individual want sends trembles around a circle of dependents, until the whole helpless ring knocks and shakes like a tray of wineglasses in an unsteady waiter's hands. Any music they make is random, involuntary and brief; one can't be still unless they all are, and they never are.”

“well I believe in commitment it's just I, you know, I don't stick to it.”

“People are strange . . .”

“People are strange when you're a stranger.”

“The world we suggest is a new wild west. A sensuous evil world. Strange and haunting, the path of the sun…”

“Do you know how pale & wanton thrillfulcomes death on a strange hourunannounced, unplanned forlike a scaring over-friendly guest you'vebrought to bedDeath makes angels of us all& gives us wingswhere we had shoulderssmooth as raven'sclaws”