“All you need do, Bernie,she gulped her toast soaked in coffee, is present the truth as fiction.”

“And yet Curts a real writer too. His machinery is stuck, thats all.”

“Curt, my husband, is a writer, and hell never write again. Thats our funeral, as they say down south. Now in your case, my pet, youre married to a phenomenon of our own special epoch, a man who cou...”

“Hes America in action opposed to quality.”

“But failure has kept Curt at home like a nice warm dachshund.”

“She was a church open only for him, with services in full operation twenty-four hours a day.”

“We are human only in contact, and conviviality, with what is not human.”

“The problem is this: nature has assembled all these species on this planet. The human species is no more important than any other species on this planet. For some reason, man accorded himself a sup...”

“More than the disappearing trees and roses, its the human tendency to suppress the Natural Voice of the Natures Man which is sorrowful.”