“You can get used to horror, he thought. When it has lost immediacy and is no longer pungent and has become a steady diet. When it has degraded to a chain of mind-numbing events. (“Lover When You're Near Me”)”

“I will cling to the rope God has thrown me in Jesus Christ, even when my numb hands can no longer feel it.”

“My daddy has a chain five miles long, on each link a heart for a lover he has lost.”

“As humanity perfects itself, man becomes degraded. When everything is reduced to the mere counter-balancing of economic interests, what room will there be for virtue? When Nature has been so subjugated that she has lost all her original forms, where will that leave the plastic arts? And so on. In the mean time, things are going to get very murky.”

“Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in Old Maid; the player who is finally with it has lost.”

“If history has taught me anything about the nature of others, it has thought me that when natures can not be denied, they persist.”