“Everytime you read, you are walking among the dead, and, if you are listening, you just might hear prophecies.”

“There must be a secret hidden in this book or else you wouldn't bother to read it”

“If you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything.”

“Why am I begging you, who parades your suffering over the ruins like a king in order to ensure that you will never be touched deeply, you who're always laughing.”

“Heart disease syphilis pregnancyAll you creeps on the street get away from me”

“Education,’ one of R’s teachers taught, ‘teaches you not to be yourself.’ But who is yourself? R decided if it or he wasn’t blood, it wasn’t anything.”

“I'm looking for what might be called a body language. One thing I do is stick a vibrator up my cunt and start writing -- writing from the point of orgasm and losing control of the language and seeing what that's like.”