“...the hearts gone bubonic with jealousy and greed, glinting through the vests and sweaters of anyone at all.”

“How easy it is to invent a humanity, for anyone at all.”

“I tried to visualize my jealousy as a yellowy-brown cloud boiling around inside me, then going out through my nose like smoke and turning into a stone and falling down into the ground. That did work a little. But in my visualization a plant covered with poison berries would grow out of the stone, whether I wanted it to or not.”

“How shrunk, how dwindled, in our timesCreation's mighty seed -For Man has broke the FellowshipWith murder, lust, and greed.”

“The heart with letters on it shining like a light bulb through the trim hole painted in the chest, art history.”

“In ten years, you'll be on a stamp /where anyone at all can lick you.”

“When they're gone out of his head, these words, they'll be gone, everywhere, forever. As if they had never been.”