God has to remind us this isn't heaven by a long shot, so he increases the radios and lethal flies.

I collect men with interesting names.

The silence drew off, baring the pebbles and shells and all the tatty wreckage of my life.

I hate handing over money to people for doing what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous.

I never feel so much myself as when I'm in a hot bath.

because wherever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok—I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air.

Strange, when one thinks of all the other boys, infinite experimental kisses, test tube infatuations, crushes, pseudo-loves. All through this physical separation, through the testing and the trying of the others, there has been this peculiar rapport, comradeship, of us two so alike, so similar, but for science-boy and humanities-girl - the introspection, self examination, biannual deep summarizing conversations, and then the platonic parting.