“It’s a cesspool, a spittoon, and the devil of it is, they set it in front of you in a fancy cup and make like it’s champagne, so of course you drink it. My daughter never had a chance in a place like that.”

—2002 radio interview about the Internet
with the mother of a teenaged kidnap victim.

“Allow me my phrases: there is a strange and deep thing coming, like a mouth, at the end of this.”

—BARRY HANNAH,
“The Spy of Loog Root”