“I, too, eat steamed human-blood buns.”

“I hope that I'm not the type of person who, standing at the doorway to hell, strikes a heroic pose and then starts frowning with indecision.”

“Before the eyes shutthis knife shines snow-bright once more through the inner organsas using a nuclear bomb to light a cigarsends lung cancer across the earthto parting lovers”

“Life is pricelesseven to an ant”

“In the face of a nation that shamelessly assaults the very marrow of our bones, memory is but a pale gray field.”

“I try to believe like I believed when I was five...when your heart tells you everything you need to know.”

“The body is intelligent, I think. It knows how to say what it means to be alive better than the mind ever will.”