Why?" she screamed. "Are you crazy? You know the English subjunctive, you understand trigonometry, you can read Marx, and you don't know the answer to something as simple as that? Why do you even have to ask? Why do you have to make a girl SAY something like this? I like you more than I like him, that's all. I wish I had fallen in love with somebody a little more handsome, of course. But I didn't. I fell in love with you!

If I choose to write about sheep, it's just because I happened to write about sheep. There is no deep significance.

The fresh smell of coffee soon wafted through the apartment, the smell that separates night from day.

Certain kinds of knowledge rob people of their sleep.

Even if we could turn back, we'd probably never end up where we started.

Hundreds of butterflies flitted in and out of sight like short-lived punctuation marks in a stream of consciousness without beginning or end.

I had my jazz club and I had enough money. So I didn't have to write for my living.