In my loneliness, or perhaps because of it, I’ve learned not to judge people, to take people as I find them, not as others find them, and most of all, to give complete and unquestioning faith to the people I love.
I’m in no hurry. I like the desert. I like aliens.
You’re welcome to stay with me for as long as you wish, whether I like it or not. Which I don’t, by the way.[to Augie]
We’re not going to abandon my daughter at a motel in the middle of the desert, buried next to the communal showers.[to his granddaughters]
The time is always wrong.[Augie Steenbeck: The time is never right.]
