"I never killed the spiders in the apartment, as a rule. I reasoned that they would help keep the place clean by catching flies. They didn’t. I resented them for not pulling their weight."

“Plants are so self-referential.”

“How far can a series of relations be stretched before they break?”

“Sunlit, obsequious, and revoltingly basic.”

”On the other side of pleasure—a luxury candle, poetry, air conditioning—there is often both rapture and sleaze.“