“Hovering wasps and bees drilled into the moist nectar oozing from the rotting pears, then flew off and circled in drunken euphoria, wasted in the Garden of Eden.”

“There's nothing worse than falling in love with impossibility.”

“Men are like a bungee cord, they stretch as far as they can, but always bounce back safely.""Yeah, but once in a while you hear about one breaking.""And then he's dead.""What's the logic in that?""There is no logic in love.”

“It has become much harder, in the past century, to tell where the garden leaves off and pure nature begins.”

“... and because it was a drunken perception, it was perfect, entire, and lasted about half a second.”

“Don't eat anything incapable of rotting.”

“We're much alike, bee, you and me," I said. "You may carry your pack underneath you and your rifle may stick out of your bottom. But you and me, bee, are much alike.”