“Did anyone think this canon of druggie men were out of control? Only in the most admirable of ways! Out of control like a shaman or a space explorer, like a magician sawing himself in half. Out of ...”

“Michelle had great admiration for criminals and crime, though only from a distance.”

“It smelled of oily flowers, like the worn pillowcases of long-ago lovers.”

“How many lovers did a person need, anyway?”

“Michelle felt that if people didnt like the way they looked in her book then they should have behaved differently.”

“You cant get lost if you have nowhere to be.”

“When you expect the world to end at any moment, you know there is no need to hurry. You take your time, you do your work well.”

“If it happens that the human race doesn't make it, then the fact that we were here once will not be altered, that once upon a time we peopled this astonishing blue planet, and wondered intelligentl...”

“I like living in my head because in there, everyone is kind and innocent. Once you start integrating yourself into the world, you realize that people are nasty, mean creatures. They're worse than z...”