The only question is how to make love stay.

You may tell the greatest lies and wear a brilliant disguise, but you can't escape the eyes of the one who sees right through you.

Never be afraid to make a fool of yourself. The furthest out you can go is the best place to be.

And it rained a fever. And it rained a silence. And it rained a sacrifice. And it rained a miracle. And it rained sorceries and saturnine eyes of the totem.

We only rise above mediocrity when there's something at stake. p. 174

One tended to lose one’s bearings in the presence of willful and persistent acts of craziness, and the more gentle the act, the crazier it seemed, as if rage and violence, being closer to the norm, were easier to accommodate.

The winter passed as slowly and peacefully as a boa constrictor digesting a valium addict.