Suddenly for no earthly reason I felt immensely sorry for him and longed to say something real, something with wings and a heart, but the birds I wanted settled on my shoulders and head only later when I was alone and not in need of words.

Life is short. From here to that old car you know so well there is a stretch of twenty, twenty-five paces. It is a very short walk. Make those twenty-five steps. Now. Right now. Come just as you are. And we shall live happily ever after.

Why should I tolerate a perfect stranger at the bedside of my mind?

I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more.

Those Eggheadsareterrible Philistines. A realgood head is not oval but round.

Thus, in pornographic novels, action has to be limited to the copulation of clichés.

I was also supposed to quiz my various companions on a number of important matters such as nostalgia, fear of unknown animals, food fantasies, nocturnal emissions, hobbies, choice of radio program, changes in out look and so forth.