Intimacy is the principal source of the sugars which this life is sweetened!

Switters was actually quite fond of Seattle's weather, and not merely because of it's ambivalence. He liked it's subtle, muted qualities and the landscape that those qualities encouraged if not engendered: vistas that seemed to have been sketched with a sumi brush dipped in quicksilver and green tea. It was fresh, it was clean, it was gently primal, and mystically suggestive.

I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the secrets of the universe.

You are an ignorant schoolgirl. You think civilization is a good thing.

Listen, I've been sick ever since I started working here, but today I'm well and I won't be in anymore.

I had literary interests my whole life. I decided at the age of five I was going to be a writer. So I had done a great deal of reading. I suppose I was more at home in Greenwich Village than, say, any of classmates from Warsaw High School. But in any case, it was an overwhelming experience for me. It took me some time to begin to assimilate it.

Cries for help are frequently inaudible.