Whenever you are examining someone else's belongings, you are bound to learn many interesting things about the person of which you were not previously aware.

If you have ever had a miserable experience, then you have probably had it said to you that you would feel better in the morning. This, of course, is utter nonsense, because a miserable experience remains a miserable experience even on the loveliest of morning.

Announcing your death should be like announcing that you are a lunar moth: It must be done quietly or it will not be believed.

'Help me,' Allison says, but she is soft-spoken, and everyone she loves is so far away.

Stealing, of course, is a crime, and a very impolite thing to do. But like most impolite things, it is excusable under certain circumstances. Stealing is not excusable if, for instance, you are in a museum and you decide that a certain painting would look better in your house, and you simply grab the painting and take it there. But if you were very, very hungry, and you had no way of obtaining money, it would be excusable to grab the painting, take it to your house, and eat it.

And then of course the music sprang up, lousy rock as bold and dull as a giant potato. "Love this song," Todd said, like it was unusually brave to like what was number one on the radio.

Let’s go, let’s go together toward something extraordinary and I started making plans, thinking we would get that far.