“I have been loved,' she said, 'by something strange, and it has forgotten me.”

Djuna Barnes

“We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.” 

“There's something evil in me that loves evil and degradation--purity's black backside! That loves honesty with a horrid love; or why have I always gone seeking it at the liar's door?” 

“God, children know something they can't tell; they like Red Riding Hood and the wolf in bed!” 

“Let us put it the other way, the Lutheran or Protestant church versus the Catholic. The Catholic is the girl that you love so much that she can lie to you, and the Protestant is the girl that loves you so much that you can lie to her, and pretend a lot that you do not feel.”