“Like Spain, I am bound to the past.”

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

“I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.”

“I am trying like Klee, to create something that will have a life of its own, that can put me in real danger, a danger which I willingly take on myself.”

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

“Tell Allen I plead guilty to vampirism and other crimes against life. But I love him and nothing else cancels love.”

“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.”