“It seems no body's business to try to better things”
“She was busy trying to stab me to death with her umbrella and I was busy trying to dodge." He made a little face. "She was better at her stabbing than I was about dodging.”
“For lovers, touch is metamorphosis. All the parts of their bodies seem to change, and they seem to become something different and better.”
“Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better.”
“Well they're pissed off and they're hungry. I was kind of busy trying not to get my brains eaten. They seemed pretty adamant about the brain-eating thing. Then they're going to IKEA, I guess”
“His work seems to confirm my old axiom: it is useless to try to keep the whole body alive.”