"'If one could steal trunks in America, one could also lie now and again,' he thought to justify himself."

"You don't want to walk and talk about Jesus, you just want to see his face"

"Your spine is cracking and your hands, they shake"

"Begged, promised, anything"

"If only you would stay

Well, I lost a lot of love over you"

"But the corridor is totally empty now," said Karl, who was pressed uncomfortably against the bedpost.

"Yes, now," said the man. "But we're talking about now," thought Karl; "this is a difficult man to talk to."

"Was he a beast if music could move him so?"

Hanneli Mustaparta: not terribly interesting, but quite pretty

"What was I doing here? What was the meaning of this trip?"

"Was I just roaming around in a drug frenzy of some kind, or had I really come out here to Las Vegas to work on a story? Who are these people, these faces? Where do they come from? They look like caricatures of used car dealers from Dallas and, sweet Jesus, there were a hell of a lot of them at 4:30 on a Sunday morning... still humping the American dream, that vision of the big winner somehow emerging from the last minute pre-dawn chaos of a stale Vegas casino."

"With a bit of luck, his life was ruined forever."

"Always thinking that just behind some narrow door in all of his favorite bars, men in red woolen shirts are getting incredible kicks from things he'll never know."

"Just don't sprain your fingers selling out"

"pouncing like a proud Black Panther"

the most charming Turkish beehive

"You can always put that award where your heart ought to be"

an extremely dated lunar art museum

"They've got dirty necks, they're so twentieth century"

"Do you want me to drop these unspeakably delicious sausages?"

Hedi Slimane loves boys as much as I do

"without the luxury of leaving"

Fuck Yeah Jaw Porn is hilarious

"Remember that time when you told me that money wasn't real?"

"If you take an axe to me, you'll kill another man, not me at all"