The things I would do to that boy. I mean, not now that I know you're interested in him. But, oh, sweet holy Lord, I would ride that one-legged pony all the way around the corral." "Kaitlyn," I said. "Sorry. Do you think you'd have to be on top?" "Kaitlyn," I said.

We're not going to break anything. Don't think of it as breaking in to SeaWorld. Think of it as visiting SeaWorld in the middle of the night for free.

Language buries, but does not resurrect.

In the contemporary world where things fall apart, and the centre cannot hold, you have to imagine a community where there is no centre. Hank, at the end of this year I started thinking that a lot of life is about doing things that don’t suck with people who don’t suck.

She raised one leg and gave me all her weight as a I dipped her. She either trusted me or wanted to fall.

The nature of impending fatherhood is that you are doing something that you're unqualified to do, and then you become qualified while doing it.

I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read tons of terrible books.