And I sat there getting drunker and drunker and more in love and more in love...And you can never touch a girl in the same way more than once, twice, or another number of times however much you may wish to hold, wrap, or otherwise fix her hand, or look, or some other quality, or incident, known to you previously.

Anathematization of the world is not an adequate response to the world.

The self cannot be escaped, but it can be, with ingenuity and hard work, distracted.

The aim of literature ... is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.

I believe that because I had obtained a wife who was made up of wife-signs (beauty, charm, softness, perfume, cookery) I had found love.

Food ... is the topmost taper on the golden candelabrum of existence.

Faint equivalents can sometimes be found ... . Or it can be rendered obliquely-an adolescent's mental image of his or her parents making love, which must be something on the order of crocodiles mating.