“Being nearly naked around Barrons felt a lot like going to a shark convention lightly basted in blood.”

“Nazi ideology offered redemption from a national ontological crisis, to which it was attracted like a predatory shark to blood.”

“There’s an awful lot of blood around that water is thicker than.”

“It seemed like an awful lot of trouble just to be naked.”

“Instead of going home, I drove to the library. To hell with human beings. I’d always felt safer with stories than with flesh and blood.”

“A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked, don't want to go without guarantee. But that's what's got to happen. You go naked until you die”

“Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.”

“But this didn'tlike magic. It felt a lot older than that. It felt like music.”

“Nobody home but She for Whom I Am the World. Can't go on like this, can't keep doing it.- Jericho Barrons”

“Our love is forbidden like the love of a shark and a—and a shark hunter. But that’s what makes it special.”