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• Disco is the best floor show in town. It's very democratic, boys with boys, girls with girls, girls with boys, blacks and whites, capitalists and Marxists, Chinese and everything else, all in one big mix.
  • Quoted in The London Review of Books (6 January 2000)

Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948)

• It seemed odd to Joel that nature did not reflect so solemn an event: flowers of cotton-boll clouds within a sky as scandalously blue as kitten-eyes were offensive to their sweet disrespect.
  • At Jesus Fever's funeral

• A resident of over a hundred years in so narrow a world deserved higher homage.

• The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography, knows no boundaries.

• Never trust a nigger: their minds and hair are full of kinks in equal measure.
  • Miss Amy

• She beckoned to him, shining and silver, and he knew he must go: unafraid, not hesitating, he paused only at the garden's edge, as though he'd forgotten something, he stopped and looked back at the bloomless, descending blue, at the boy he had left behind.

• But my dear, so few things are fulfilled: what are most lives but a series of incomplete episodes
  • Randolf