“What are stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?”

“What are the stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?--Gravity's Rainbow, V699”

“after all the work of the philosophers on his soul and the doctors on his body, what can we really say we know about a man? That he is, when all is said and done, just a passage for liquids and solids, a pipe of flesh.”

“We should tackle reality in a slightly jokey way, otherwise we miss its point.”

“There is no pain compared to that of loving a woman who makes her body accessible to one and yet who is incapable of delivering her true self -- because she does not know where to find it.”

“We live" writes Pursewarden somewhere, "lives based upon selected fictions. Our view of reality is conditioned by our position in space and time - not by our personalities as we like to think. Thus every interpretation of reality is based upon a unique position. Two paces east or west and the whole picture is changed.”

“The realisation of one's own death is the point at which one becomes adult.”