The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.

Wait, wait. I don't get it.' 'That is because you only have eight functioning brain cells.

I knew that time would now pass for me differently than it would for him - that I, like everyone in that room, would go on accumulating loves and losses while he would not. And for me, that was the final and truly unbearable tragedy: Like all the innumerable dead, he'd once and for all been demoted from haunted to haunter.

In retrospect Hank I don't know why I spent four years writing this book when I could have just made a hit sing-a-ma-jig album.

Let's make a deal: You figure out what the labyrinth is and how to get out of it, and i'll get you laid. -Alaska Young

I'm a bad boyfriend. She's a bad girlfriend. We deserve each other.

I spy with my little eye a great story.