“Even without the mushroom cloudstill I would have hatedListenI would have done the same thingseven if there were no deathI will not be held like a drunkardunder the cold tap of factsI refuse the universal alibi”

“I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts”

“Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else."Then let's be quiet together.”

“i would like to remindthe managementthat the drinks are wateredand the hat-check girlhas syphilisand the band is composedof former ss monstersHowever since it isnew year's eveand i have lip canceri will place mypaper hat on myconcussion and dance”

“So the great affair is over but whoever would have guessed it would leave us all so vacant and so deeply unimpressed It's like our visit to the moon or to that other star I guess you go for nothing if you really want to go that far. It's like our visit to the moon or to that other star I guess you go for nothing if you really want to go that far.”

“F. once said: At sixteen I stopped fucking faces. I had occasioned the remark by expressing disgust at his latest conquest, a young hunchback he had met while touring an orphanage. F. spoke to me that day as if I were truly one of the underprivileged; or perhaps he was not speaking to me at all when he muttered: Who am I to refuse the universe?”

“I have often prayed for you like this Let me have her”