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“It has something to do with the cosmic rays coming from outer space. They strike some person or thing, and then you get a mutation - like the stripes on a zebra.

The attraction of two such mutants to one another would have an almost incestuous appeal and be far stronger than the bond of love between ordinary human beings.”
― Anna Kavan, Julia and the Bazooka and Other Stories

“But why do people who are good at families have to be smug and assume it is the only way to live, as if everybody else is inadequate? Why can’t they be blamed for being bad at promiscuity?”
― Hanif Kureishi, Intimacy

“I know I've got a death wish. I've never enjoyed my life, I've never liked people. I love the mountains because they are the negation of life, indestructible, inhuman, untouchable, indifferent, as I want to be.”
― Anna Kavan, Julia and the Bazooka and Other Stories

“The mind I love must have wild places.”
― Katherine Mansfield