'Somewhere, the smart set lives.'
'Like a dizzying sweep in a profundity of ages - something, anything, limitless, wherever.'
'A jumble of old metal, sacred now to nothing.'
'Beauty and grace, malevolence and calculation, everything all wrapped in one. There seemed both NO way in and NO way out.'
'Just like some Wintertime storm approaching.'
'Has anyone seen what the mighty hands have wrought?'
'Being unsure of what I was even seeing, I knew so little of this world - a well-vaunted illusion, perhaps, or something twisted over a cloth of appearances; a strange guaze ever-ready to evaporate and fade away. Was something behind it, more real, struggling ever to appear?'
'In some stranger manner of a diffident embrace, I was sure we'd clutched before at this same reverent scene. This house bore our many secrets well.'
'It seemed I came for you so quickly. You were not there. By the time YOU arrived, I was not there...'
'May I remind you of certain things? : You are never alone, the eyes of a God are always upon you, your eggs HAVE no basket, the verisimilitude of reality is to be doubted and, lastly, there are more important things than time alone.'
'Pernicious wanderings, errant thoughts, ideas of no good design.'
'So, they were saying : "Uncle Narcissus was never this bad."'
'Oh your cold, calculated jumble of bush.'
'In all my life, I found this to be true: there is no airtime at the airshow.'
'In my day I was a rouster and a rustler too. I cared little for what anyone thought or said about me. It was just that way...although now I am, all of me, heart and feelings, ensconced behind doors locked silent with both reverie and regret. There's nothing more to be said, really.'
'And all together then we simply had a sudden moment.'
'If I paint the sky with the arms of God, what then?'
'Michaelson to O'Malley to Mandalay.'
'I was tagged at the center, I'd tagged my heart. I wore the notices of a hundred messages and intentions, I reflected all things. I proferred the world with gems and crystal-sounding phrases. I was nothing. I was everything.'
'The doorway led to...disaster, perdition, glory OR doom.'