The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.

All families are psychotic. Everybody has basically the same family - it's just reconfigured slightly different from one to the next.

Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.

I say ‘Uhmm...’ a lot. I mentioned this to Karla and she says it’s a CPU word. It means you’re assembling data in your head - spooling.

Once he entered my life, I promptly forgot all my years of putting on a brave face while browsing at bookstores until closing time, and of having one, two, three beers while watching crime shows and CNN. I completely forgot the hateful sensation of loneliness, like thirst and hunger together pressing on my stomach.

People will always choose more money over more sex

ETHNOMAGNETISM: The tendency of young people to live in emotionally demonstrative, more unrestrained ethnic neighborhoods: 'You wouldn't understand it there, mother - they hug where I live now.'