“Sammy, wouldnt you like to add up to something? In the future? Amount to something?Naw. I just figure to roll on, stackin days, you know, till the day I fuck up big enough the future gets canceled....”

“Nobody cares for getting belittled by a person youve had sex with. A person youve licked all over. Nobody wants to sit there and get run down too far by somebody who gives them a hard-on.”

“I had been born shoved to the margins of the world, sure, but I had volunteered for the pits.”

“I FELL DEEP down in there, until this bright light raised me from sleep. Coming out of a pit such as that, you think the bright light could be God or a cop on patrol.”

“I, myself, often wished to be spared the expectation of better days ahead or such.”

“You cannot imagine the craving for rest that I feela hunger and thirst. For six long days, since my work was done, my mind has been a whirlpool, swift, unprogressive and incessant, a torrent of tho...”

“There is a rest that comes when you live out of your sound. Silence is no longer something to be avoided. It signifies a soul at rest.”

“All right, Nico relented. Maybe a little He managed to take off his aviator jacket and wad it into a pillow before he keeled over and began to snore.”

“...the souls of none of them were dead, but only sleeping; now and then they would waken, and these were cruel times.”

“Sleep, where in the waste is the wisdom?”

“If you can't turn off your thoughts, who cares how soft your pillow is?"- David King”