“I am not the we of anyone”

“Perhaps; but I am a difficult person to live with. My difficulty consists in not wanting to live with other people.”

“I have lived through an eventful year, yet understand no more of it than a babe in arms. Of all the people of this town I am the one least fitted to write a memorial. Better the blacksmith with his cries of rage and woe.”

“(I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.”

“I remember asking John, after Dusklands, what new project he had on the go. His answer was vague. 'There is always something or the other I am working on', he said. 'If I yield to the seduction of not working, what would I do with myself? What would there be to live for? I would have to shoot myself.”

“I don't think we are ready to die, any of us, not without being escorted.”

“The mistake the two of us made,’ I said, ‘was that we skimped the foreplay. I’m not blaming you, it was as much my fault as yours, but it was a fault nonetheless.”