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“If you sneer at religion as the opiate of the masses, you must sneer also at the brain, because the receptors are there. You must sneer at the body, which knows how to feel that bliss. What I mean is, a sweet look of lying down in poppy fields, of feeling control finally by giving over control, a look of wild and then tame relinquishment.”
― Patricia Lockwood, Priestdaddy

“What she worried for was not just her sister's life but her originality. She loved Star Wars so much, fur instance, that she had walked down the aisle to "The Imperial March". Would the impulse to walk down the aisle to "The Imperial March" - which seemed the essence of survival itself, the little tune we hummed in the dark - would that make it out of whatever was happening alive?”
― Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This

“A soft spot for night creatures, i.e., cats and women.”
― Erica Alex, Cake in the Blackbird Stew

“And suddenly you recall all the senseless time-wasting things you’ve done . . . the wasted minutes you’ll never recover. And you realize that time is the most precious thing. Because time is life. It’s the only thing you can never get”
― Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls