Quotes by William H. Gass, The Tunnel

“I'd like to look below my eyes and see not language staring back at me, not sentences or single words or awkward pen lines, but a surface clear and burnished as glass.”

“Sing of disappointments more repeated than the batter of the sea, of lives embittered by resentments so ubiquitous the oceans salt seems thinly shaken, of letdowns local as the sofa where I copped ...”

“One thingone thing exceeds the eternity of the star, he cries, and that is the dark which surrounds it.”