You could tell by the way he talked, though, that he had gone to school a long time. That was probably what was wrong with him.

It will all end very badly, Gus

The heart is important at any age, I'm afraid.

you can always tell employees of the government by the total vacancy which occupies the space where most other people have faces.

Leaving New Orleans also frightened me considerably. Outside of the city limits the heart of darkness, the true wasteland begins.

I refuse to "look up." Optimism nauseates me. It is perverse. Since man's fall, his proper position in the universe has been one of misery.

Jail was preferable. There they only limited you physically. In a mental ward they tampered with your soul and worldview and mind.