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

“A man is an angel that has gone deranged.”
― Philip K. Dick

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

“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