“She would give them order. She would create constellations.”

“'Recluse' is a code word generated by journalists... meaning, 'doesn't like to talk to reporters.'”

“Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.”

“It's been a prevalent notion. Fallen sparks. Fragments of vessels broken at the Creation. And someday, somehow, before the end, a gathering back to home. A messenger from the Kingdom, arrivi...”

“Shit, money, and the World, the three American truths, powering the American mobility, claimed the Slothrops, clasped them for good to the country's fate. But they did not prosper... about a...”

“There are two more turds, smaller ones, and when he has eaten these, residual shit to lick out of her anus. He prays that she'll let him drop the cape over himself, to be allowed, in the sil...”