“Only this reality is real now, only this place is real, sitting in the lonely cell of your will...”

“Each second is a raw drop of blood from your brainthat you must swallowdrop by dropand don't even start countingor you'll lose your mind...”

“No Statue of Liberty ever greeted our arrival in this country...we did not, in fact, come to the United States at all. The United States came to us.”

“God gave woman a clitoris--a small little bit of flesh with only one purpose--transcendent sexual pleasure. So how is it that some people believe God and sex shouldn't be in the same sentence? ”

“Passion: "Your profile ought to be pressed upon a coin."Mark: "Your body ought to be pressed upon mine.”

“We accept reality so readily - perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.”

“Polite applause punctuated the end of the clockmaker's speech. But Passion continued to stare. Herwords came before she thought to hold them back. "Your profile ought to be pressed upon a coin."He bent his blue gaze upon her. "Your body ought to be pressed upon mine.”