Babies are made through an act that you will eventually find intriguing but for right now will just sort of horrify you, and also sometimes people do stuff that involves baby-making parts that does not actually involve making babies, like for instance kiss each other in places that are not on the face.

The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.

I hope you didn't bring the Asian kid along thinking he's a computer genius. Because I'm not," Takumi said.

Television is a passivity.

I kept it for myself like a keepsake, as if sharing the memory might lead to its dissipation.

Hey Pudge," the Colonel said. "What do you think of a truce?" "It reminds me of when the Germans demanded that the U.S. surrender at the Battle of the Bulge," I said. "I guess I'd say to this truce offer what General McAuliffe said to that one: Nuts.

That's what I realized: if I did get her back somehow, she wouldn't fill the hole that losing her created.