“When the thing that emerged from the collision of sex and freedom, called love, collided with the thing that emerged from the collision of time and memory, called history, the dreams began to come.”

“He had thrilled to his own power only in the throes of sex, when he didn't have the presence of mind to know that pleasure wouldn't last forever, and in the flush of freedom, when he was too innocent to know he wasn't free.Now he seized the power that came from that collision of sex with freedom called love.”

“a dream is only a memory of the future”

“1939. Love rages. It cries out from you, seething and red; I come back for more and more.”

“Someone dies when the movies get into your dreams.”

“By the plain form of my delirium I will blast the obstruction of every form around me into something barely called shadow. I sail. I swim to you. I know the water.”

“America One," came Wade's voice from the big shadow, "or America Two?”