"Upon awakening there are still within him tremors metallic in taste, metalloid rather, almost sulphuric, not quite, but the sun is there already, high in the sky." -- Raymond Queneau
"It was impossible to learn, you had to be taught, and I didn't know anybody to teach me or I would have done it. [...] You had to be deep within that world, and it's very obscure, a subculture that lived according to their own precepts."