The fun of reading as "an exchange between consciousnesses, a way for human beings to talk to each other about stuff we can't normally talk about."

She wanted only tall smooth bottles whose labels spoke of Proof.

Most really pretty girls have pretty ugly feet, and so does Mindy Metalman, Lenore notices, all of a sudden.

One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough to garner either.

You have decided being scared is caused mostly by thinking.

When a solipsist dies ... everything goes with him.

I am concentrating docilely on the question why U.S. restrooms always appear to us as infirmaries for public distress, the place to reagain control.