Quotes

• Quote 1


  "I haven't enjoyed one bite of this dinner because of your constant directions on how to eat it"
• Quote 2


  "For sixty five dollars a month I give up all that I dream of doing and being ever and you say self- self's all I think of? Why isten, if self was all I thought of mother I'd be where he is GONE" (he points to his father's portrait)
• Quote 3 


  "There's a trick that would come in handy for me get me out of this two by four situation. You know it doesn't take much intelligence toto get yourself into a nailed up coffin Laura but who in hell ever got himself out of one without removing one nail"
• Quote 4


  "I'm planning to change ( he leans over the fire escape rail quiet with exhilaration. The incandescent Marques and signs of the first fun run movie houses light his face from across the alley. He looks like a voyageur) "
• Quote 5


  "I didn't go to the moon I went much further for time isis the longest distance between two places"
• Quote 6 


  "The window is filled with prices of coloured glass, tiny transparent bottles in delicate colours, like bits of a shattered rainbow"
• Quote 7


  "Then all at once my sister touches my shoulder. I turn around and look into her eyes. Oh Laura, Laura, I tried to leave you behind me, but I am more faithful than I intended to be"