They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.

If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.

DEATH . . . And now you are here to fight for this woman. You know her promise is given. She has to die or her husband won't go free. APOLLO Relax, I'm not breaking any laws. DEATH Why the bow, if you're breaking no laws? APOLLO I always carry a bow, it's my trademark.

Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.

A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.

The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.

As Sokrates tells it, your story begins the moment Eros enters you. That incursion is the biggest risk of your life. How you handle it is an index of the quality, wisdom, and decorum of the things inside you. As you handle it you come into contact with what is inside you, in a sudden and startling way. You perceive what you are, what you lack, what you could be.