They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?

And now, all these years later, it seemed to him that the most horrible fact of human existence was that broken hearts mended.

If we don't have each other we go crazy with loneliness. When we do, we go crazy with togetherness. When we get together we build miles of summer cottages and kill each other in the bars on Saturday night

The thunder of the breakers was tremendous down here, bigger than the world. Like standing inside a thunderstorm. And if we were the last people on earth, so what? This would go on as long as there was a moon to pull the water.