She wanted a book to take her places she couldn't get to herself.

Virgin suicide What was that she cried? No use in stayin' On this holocaust ride She gave me her cherry She's my virgin suicide

The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.

no reason to mention my peculiarities, my wandering in the maze these many years, shut away from sight. and from love, too.

I saw the movie, he said. I know what it's about. Listen to this. When girls get to be about twelve or so - he leaned toward us - their tits bleed.

To start with, look at all the books.

Every novelist should possess a hermaphroditic imagination.