“I don't want to be a star, merely dying.”

“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.”

“ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars”

“I don't rememberlighting this cigaretteand I don't rememberif I'm here aloneor waiting for someone.”

“I don't even hate books anymore.”

“I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.”

“The first star tonight insanely high, virgin, calm.I have one hour of peace before the documented planets burn me down.”