“Im going to become a beat poet and a lesbian!”

“The women looked from one to the other, knowing what the men didnt know. We knew the heartbeat and interior graces, compensation for our own clumsiness; the beatitude as we renounced our bodies, ou...”

“The condom broke. I know how stupid that sounds. It's the reproductive version of the dog ate my homework.”

“Suzanne had totally forgotten about their court date since she'd been a little busy having tons of condom-free sex with Ryder, planning Nikki's wedding, and forming a placenta.”

“Why werent you beautiful? That wouldve solved everything.('Left from Dhakeshwari')”

“To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty, human, all-too-human principle [....] Without cruelty there is no festival.”

“Now driving in a wild frieze of headlong horses with eyes walled and teeth cropped and naked riders with clusters of arrows clenched in their jaws and their shields winking in the dust and pu the f...”

“Sex can be used either for self-affirmation or for self-transcendence either to intensify the ego and consolidate the social persona by some kind of conspicuous embarkation and heroic conquest, or...”

“He didn't know all that much about how the machinery worked anyway. Such knowledge was for specialists. In war, as in love, he was a fearless, happy-go-lucky adventurer.”

“If she did experience sex--or something close to it--in high school, I'm sure it would have been less out of sexual desire or love than literary curiosity.”