“In our lifetimes, we can only know a small portion of what exists. The world is endless and its treasures are inexhaustible.”

“Lo, each subculture has its own language, and verily I am not a parody. You dont believe me? Get with the program, crackpot!”

“Although you can not hear my thoughts, Sam, I imagine Im talking to you. Prayers to the brother who abandoned me. The day after you left Labrador, my honey started flowing. Is my body weeping for y...”

“As a man Id been a cool customer. As a woman I was a hot tamale.”

“Sam believes now that people repeatedly collide with each other swiftly, brutally not to produce children but to shatter their sense of self, and be thrust into a creative space beyond reason, whe...”

“Again Sams genitals became rock, and this astonished him as much as anything. Through Franz, he was becoming the stone Earth; the final border separating him from the planet was disappearing. And t...”

“I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained; this i...”

“If I should get lost in all the chaos of the world, pull your butterly net and catch me in the beauty of your love. Remind me of important things -- friends, flowers, fields of cool grass under bar...”

“Make no attachment, so you can flow freely.”

“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.”

“Men work together,' I told him from the heart,'Whether they work together or apart.”

“Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.”