You were always uncomfortable with the rhetoric of emotion, which is quite a different matter from discomfort with emotion itself.

The good life doesn't knock on the door. Joy is a job.

Maybe the greatest favour a spouse can tender is to overlook what you can't.

I didn't care about anything. And there's a freedom in apathy, a wild, dizzying liberation on which you can almost get drunk. You can do anything. Ask Kevin.

The fact that my clothing has been visually available to other people I do not find upsetting. The body is another matter. It is mine; I have found it useful; but it is an avatar.

It's an apathy so absolute that it's like a hole you might fall in.

A boy is a dangerous animal.