Cono Quotes

“If it’s not one god it’s another. Allah or oil. Jesus or Jewels. Lenin or lust.”
― Victor Robert Lee, Performance Anomalies

“To make a friend you must close one eye. And to keep a friend, you must close both eyes.”
― Victor Robert Lee, Performance Anomalies

“Ah, men losing the power in their dicks. When they can no longer f___ their women, they f___ the world.”
― Victor Robert Lee, Performance Anomalies

“Hungry for what? Money? No. Power? Over people? That was like having power over clams.”
― Victor Robert Lee, Performance Anomalies

“It’s a heavy responsibility, having saved someone’s life. You feel an allegiance because you saved them, but it’s hard to know if you did the right thing.”
― Victor Robert Lee, Performance Anomalies

“I believe in the goddess of mystery. And she’s always pregnant!”
― Victor Robert Lee, Performance Anomalies

“In my country, when we think about the future, we shake.”
― Victor Robert Lee, Performance Anomalies

“What took you so long? Waiting for Buddha?”
― Victor Robert Lee, Performance Anomalies

“History is running very fast in my country.”
― Victor Robert Lee, Performance Anomalies

“Freedom is hard to come by.”
― Victor Robert Lee, Performance Anomalies

“You, Cono, are part of a new trend of uncovering the genetic basis of human performance anomalies.”
― Victor Robert Lee, Performance Anomalies

“To Cono’s mind the three assailants were all three nearly motionless even as they skittered and dodged, firing, maneuvering for a kill. Cono felt exhilaration—the ecstatic awareness that his strange brain and body had ordained him for just such moments, by allowing him to enter a space outside of time.”
― Victor Robert Lee, Performance Anomalies

“Maybe he had become addicted after all—addicted to being the pivot point, to being as central as that crucial joint between copulating man and woman, but with a danger that did not know the bounds of orgasm.”
― Victor Robert Lee, Performance Anomalies

“He has freedom on his face.”
― Victor Robert Lee, Performance Anomalies

“She was like him, trying to embrace the moon while making her way in the world through instinct and drive that came only from within, because she had only herself.”
― Victor Robert Lee, Performance Anomalies

“Semtex, PE4, C-4, Plastrite, Netrolit, Spring Korper, Rowanex-- Cono felt slightly shameful about his familiarity with plastics, and yet seeing them here, even so amateurishly arranged, gave him a perverse comfort.”
― Victor Robert Lee, Performance Anomalies