“In the U.S. you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.”

“Quien sabe? Not me. The older I get the less I sabe, the less wisdom, maturity and caution I have.”

“When you stop growing you start dying.”

“Oh be careful! There they go again!" said the old queen as his string broke spilling his balls over the floor.... "Stop them will you, James, you worthless old shit! Don't just stand there and let the master's balls roll into the coal-bin!”

“The name's Clem Williamson Snide. I am a private asshole.”

“Like Spain, I am bound to the past.”

“So he is putting down junk and coming on with tea. I take three drags, Jane looked at him and her flesh crystallized. I leaped up screaming "I got the fear!" and ran out of the house. Drank a beer in a little restaurant - mosaic bar and soccer scores and bullfight posters - and waited for the bus to town.A year later in Tangier I heard she was dead.”