“Since Henry Miller's Tropic books, of course, it has become difficult to talk sensibly about girls' c*nts.”
“Henry shrugged. "I've kissed plenty of girls." "I'm not talking about your mom,dork.”
“Of course it's almost ludicrously difficult to talk about art. And about beauty. Beauty is a perversion--how can you retain your self-respect when you talk about it?”
“If Henry Miller often sounded like a village idiot, it is because, like Whitman, he was the rest of the village as well.”
“I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since.”
“Sleep: the moon still hasn't moved the width of a constellation since you were a girl. Since you have become a woman, the stars that stand above the halls of Palladios have not yet disappeared behind the domes of San Marco. But only since then has the world become the world.”