Love with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or publicizing it: keep cool, but care.

To have humanism we must first be convinced of our humanity. As we move further into decadence this becomes more difficult.

"You are so close." "To whom? Margravine, not even to himself. This place, this island: all his life he's done nothing but hop from island to island. Is that a reason? Does there have to be a reason? Shall he tell you: he works for no Whitehall, non conceivable unless, ha, ha, the network of white halls in his own brain: these featureless corridors he keeps swept and correct for occasional visiting agents."

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.

Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.

The Lord's angel, Gebrail, dictated the Koran to Mohammed the Lord's Prophet. What a joke if all that holy book were only twenty-three years of listening to the desert. A desert which has no voice.

Murphy's Law, that brash proletarian restatement of Godel's Theorem.