“We know what we are, that we walk like we are not long for this world, that this world has never longed for us.”

“I know when God gives us somethin' good in this world we gotta hold on long as we can.”

“The Man has a branch office in each of our brains, his corporate emblem is a white albatross, each local rep has a cover known as the Ego, and their mission in this world is Bad Shit. We do know what's going on, and we let it go on. As long as we can see them, stare at them, those massively moneyed, once in a while. As long as they allow us a glimpse, however rarely. We need that. And they know it - how often, under what conditions...”

“We are born into this world with a life-long hunger for food... We are born into this world with a life-long hunger for love...”

“Two years ago your father died, Ulysses. But as long as we are alive, as long as we are together, as long as two of us are left, and remember him, nothing in the world can take him from us.”

“The desire to consume is a kind of lust...We long to have the world flow through us like air or food..”