“Why and earth should an unshaven young man in a track suit be carrying a basket of oranges and yesterday's newspaper? The whole boat must of noticed him!”
“Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.”
“Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him. ”
“The sky was murky and deep, like quicksand. There was a young man parcelled up in barbed wire, like a crown of thorns. I untangled him and carried him out. High above the earth, we sank together, to our knees. It was just another day, 1918.”
“Only yesterday a young woman came to me wanting a trap set for a man with a sweet smile and lithe arms. She was a fool, not for wanting him, but for wanting more of him than that.”
“Most suits made the man. Gideon did things to a three-piece suit that should be illegal.”