I'm not good at small talk; I'm not good at big talk; and medium talk just doesn't come up.

I meet a person, and in my mind I'm saying three minutes; I give you three minutes to show me the spark.

He wondered how we know that what happens to us isn't good.

What I think," Chatty says, "is that if a man loves a woman more than a woman loves a man, then they're even.

As soon as I knew that I would be all right, I was sure that I was dead and didn't know it. I moved through the days like a severed head that finishes a sentence. I waited for the moment that would snap me out of my seeming life.

Just because you have stopped sinking doesn't mean you're not still underwater.

All those years on the psychiatrist's couch and suddenly the couch is moving. Good God, she is on that couch when the big one hits. Maidy didn't tell you, but you know what her doctor said? She sprang from the couch and said, "My God, was that an earthquake?" The doctor said this: "Did it feel like an earthquake to you?