I'm odd, I know,' he said. 'It's fear of myself that's made me odd.

We're not too young for love, just too young for about everything there is that goes with love.

How embarrassing it is to be human.

Educating a beautiful woman is like pouring honey into a fine Swiss watch: everything stops.

How embarrassing to be human.

He ate a pear. It was a hard one. It fought back against his grinding teeth. It snapped in juicy protest.

The only way to get anything out of a writer's brains is to leave him or her alone until he or she is damn well ready to write it down.