“The real scholar must choose truth and somehow it is better if it is made so ugly that nobody could doubt its virginity.”

“I'm not sure if it's better to be alone but it's probably safer.”

“How could she be sorry about losing her virginity in a romance-novel way on a sunset sail?”

“In Conclusion, let us inquire what has been and what is to be the Meaning of the Great Plains in American Life”

“I don't play solitaire. It seems so lonely, somehow.”

“Tattooing, when understood in its entirety, must be seen as a religious act. The human being brings forth images from the center of the self and communicates them to the world. Fantasy is embodied in reality and the person is made whole.”

“I think I grew up that night. It might have been Patrick that lost his virginity, but it was me that lost my innocence.”