I don't go into hysterics or anything, but I look around for something to smash it with. I used to live out in the country when I first moved here, and there were a lot of centipedes in the house, and I set out to kill them all. A program of genocide. I'd wake up in the middle of the night, and I'd know there's a centipede in this room. And there always was. And I couldn't go to sleep until I killed it.

Kick is seeing things from a special angle. Kick is momentary freedom from the claims of the aging, cautious, nagging, fightened flesh.

Tell Allen I plead guilty to vampirism and other crimes against life. But I love him and nothing else cancels love.

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

The junk merchant doesn't sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client.

Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?

Americans have a special horror of giving up control, of letting things happen in their own way without interference.