“I was once the wine, and you the wineglass.
I was once alive, when you held me.
God became the glass:
All things left were emptiness.”

““A lot of things seem to be happening, all at once,” I told Chester.
“Enemy action,” he replied.
“Huh?”
“That’s what you told me once. An old Army motto you found when you were doing those war books. Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action. This is the third time.””

“A wine shop was open and I went in for some coffee. It smelled of early morning, of swept dust, spoons in coffee-glasses and the wet circles left by wine glasses.”

“I was dead then alive,
She was like wine turned to water then turned back to wine;
You can pour us out, we won't mind,
As scratch around the mouth of the glass, "My life is no longer mine."”

“I have seen you in the movies,
And in those magazines at night.
I saw you on the barstool,
When you held that glass so tight.”

“Only one thing’s sadder than remembering you were once free, and that’s forgetting you were once free.”

“The moment I stood there I saw people from houses to my right, left and front were already on their balcony’s and they stared at me all at once as if I was from Jupiter. Their interrogative expression was asking me ‘who the hell are you?’ repeatedly. I did not give a damn, though.”

“I know I told you once that whether God exists or not, we're on our own. But when I'm with you, I'm not.”

“I know it's wrong - God, it's all kinds of wrong - but I just want to lie down with you and wake up with you, just once, just once ever in my life.”

“The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.”