“Behold how much wood is kindled by how small a fire, and the tongue is fire.”

“You never bother me, Glory. It's remarkable how much you don't bother me. Almost unprecedented.”

“Think how much less stupefying the last fifty years might have been if people had actually read Marx.”

“Families will not be broken. Curse and expel them, send their children wandering, drown them in floods and fires, and old women will make songs of all these sorrows and sit on the porch and sing them on mild evenings.”

“The young might have been restless around any primal fire where an elder was saying, Know this. Certainly they would have been restless. Their bodies were consumed with the business of lengthening limbs, sprouting hair, fitting themselves for procreation.”

“It's strange how you never quite get used to the world at night.”

“How I wish you could have known me in my strength.”