It's still easier to find the correct Hoover bag than to find one pure person, one pure faith, on the globe.

No matter what anyone says, suicide takes guts. It's for heroes and martyrs, truly vainglorious men. Archie was none of these. He was a man whose significance in the Greater Scheme of Things could be figured along familiar ratios: Pebble : Beach Raindrop : Ocean Needle : Haystack

You say you want to talk, But you don't . You stonewall me.

All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.

The object of the passion is just an accessory to the passion itself.

I'm not sure if you're the person for me any more.

Desire is never final, desire is imprecise and impractical [...]