Books belong to their readers.

I'm a grenade, I just want to stay away from people and read books, and think.

Maybe we're grass—our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is still alive.

He'd fought hard, Lida told me, as if there was another way to fight.

Interesting capitalization,' I said. 'Yeah. I'm a big believer in random capitalization. The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle.

But pizza was originally Italian, although, Italian pizza doesn't taste much like this because this pizza is fortified with sodium. Which is a mineral...or a vitamin. All I know is that it's good for you.

When surprised and excited and innocent Gus emerged from Grand Gesture Metaphorically Inclined Augustus, I literally could not resist.