"I was standing in the most absolute aloneness that I had ever been given."

"Nobody worth a damn could ever come from such a place. It was nothing, like most places and people are nothing."

"What a view, I said again. The river was blank and mindless with beauty. It was the most glorious thing I have ever s…"

"I decided that survival was not in the rivets and the metal, and not in the double-sealed doors and not in the marble…"

"At times I get the feeling I can't wait. Life is so fucked-up now, and so complicated, that I wouldn't mind if it cam…"

"I had the feeling that if it were perfectly quiet, if I could hear nothing, I would never wake up. Something in the w…"

"Something or other was being made good. I touched the knife hilt at my side, and remembered that all men were once bo…"

"That’s all anybody has got. It depends on how strong your fantasy is, and whether you really — really — in your own m…"

"There was nothing in common, in the way he was lying, with any of the positions I had seen him in while he was alive,…"

"The river and everything I remembered about it became a possession to me, a personal, private possession, as nothing …"