“Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe.”
“I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room - and God damn it - died in a hotel room.”
“At the hotel we had separate rooms, but in the middle of the night she came sobbing into mine, and we made it up very gently. You see, she had absolutely nowhere else to go.”
“There are more than one universe, and its inhabitants.”
“It would not do to be Lord of a universe inhabited solely by serfs.”
“But to her, libraries were like hotels: secret villages inhabited by passing strangers from a thousand different worlds brought together just for a few hours.”