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

Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.

Up against another human being one's own procedures take on definition

Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.

All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.

I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.

Then a miracle occurred in the form of a plate of sandwiches. Geryon took three and buried his mouth in a delicious block of white bread filled with tomatoes and butter and salt. He thought about how delicious it was, how he liked slippery foods, how slipperiness can be of different kinds. I am a philosopher of sandwiches, he decided. Things good on the inside.