“And how simple, how sublimely familiar was the tale her body told.”

“And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.”

“I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.”

“...and I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.”

“He told Trout about people he'd heard of in the area who grabbed live copperheads and rattlesnakes during church services, to show how much they believed that Jesus would protect them."Takes all kinds of people to make up a world," said Trout.”

“The humanoids told Don that if he went home with a whore, she would cook him a meal of petroleum and coal products at fancy prices. And then, while he ate them, she would talk dirty about how fresh and full of natural juices the food was, even though the food was fake.”

“How embarrassing it is to be human.”