I'll use the knives for spreading jam, and the gas to warm my greying love.

It seemed better to delay thinking.

Banion wondered which was worse - being sodomized by aliens, or having to sit through two hours of Charles Ives.

All our days are marked with/ unexpected/ affronts--some/ disastrous, others/ less so/ but the process is/ wearing and/ continuous./ Attrition rules./ Most give/ way/ leaving/ empty spaces/ where people should/ be.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

A woman must be nursed into subsistence by love, where a man can become stronger by being hated." - from 'Cows in Art Class

It’s the order of things: each one gets a taste of honey then the knife.