Delta Erving

“They drank a few glasses of soda after eating their pie and grooved behind the dope and the waitress and giggled and scratched for a while, then dropped another dexie, got a couple of containers of coffee, and split and continued toward Miami and the connections. They were quiet for a while, listening to the music and feeling warm and secure with the dope and the future, each smiling inwardly thinking about the end of their problems and the panic, at least for them.”
― Hubert Selby Jr., Requiem for a Dream

“You're not like the others. I've seen a few; I know. When I talk, you look at me. When I said something about the moon, you looked at the moon, last night. The others would never do that. The others would walk off and leave me talking. Or threaten me. No one has time any more for anyone else. You're one of the few who put up with me. That's why I think it's so strange you're a fireman, it just doesn't seem right for you, somehow.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“It was the reason he had survived. It was the ordinary way of saying she would refuse all other men. Only you. Come back.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“for better or worse, it is the commentator who has the last word.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire