“The entire piece has been devised with the French in mind. In France, fornication in the streets with total strangers is *compulsory*.”
“In the outside world, my brother told me, people were as reckless as animals and fornicated with strangers on the street.”
“Life has not been devised by morality: it wants deception, it lives on deception.”
“It's funny how this total stranger could relate to me better than anyone else I'd ever met. It was as if I'd known her my entire life.”
“If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers.”
“There were people everywhere on the city street, but the stranger could not have been more alone if it were empty.”