I don't want you to describe to me—not ever—what you were doing to that poor boy to make him sound like that; but if you ever do it again, please cover his mouth with your hand.

Just when you begin thinking of yourself as memorable, you run into someone who can't even remember having met you

There's nothing as scary as the future.

He had heard her say, so many times, that a society that approved of making abortion illegal was a society that approved of violence against women; that making abortion illegal was simply a sanctimonious, self-righteous form of violence against women- it was just another way of legalizing violence against women, Nurse Caroline would say.

Whatever I write, no matter how gray or dark the subject matter, it's still going to be a comic novel.

The former stewardess glared at her ex-pilot husband as if he had been speaking, and thinking, in the absence of sufficient oxygen.

When people say that German or any other language is romantic... all they really mean is that they've enjoyed a past in the language