If I had to be anything," he told her, "I'd probably be a socialist, but I don't want to be anything.

You can learn a lot from your lovers, but-for the most part-you get to keep your friends longer, and you learn more from them.

I'm a worst-case scenario person. I'm only interested in a story because I kind of go, like a magnet, to the worst thing that can happen.

I've always been slow but I'm even slower now. I'm more into the waiting, or I guess I'm more patient about the waiting.

I think that was when the headmaster realized he had lost; he realized then that he was finished. Because, what could he do? Was he going to tell us to stop praying? We kept our heads bowed; and we kept praying. Even as awkward as he was, the Rev. Mr. Merrill had made it clear to us that there was no end to praying for Owen Meany.

My brain is sending poison to my heart.

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