Overhead was a sky blacker than jewlers' velvet, and a billion stars screamed down.

In the end we are all caught in devices of our own making. I believe that. In the end we are all caught.

Crying was like pissing everything out on the ground.

The age of the book is not over. No way... But maybe the age of some books is over. People say to me sometimes 'Steve, are you ever going to write a straight novel, a serious novel' and by that they mean a novel about college professors who are having impotence problems or something like that. And I have to say those things just don't interest me. Why? I don't know. But it took me about twenty years to get over that question, and not be kind of ashamed about what I do, of the books I write.

there is no gain without risk, perhaps no risk without love.

She felt like someone who drowns remembering what it was like to still be on the boat, so calm and at ease, so carelessly safe

It might be that the biggest division in the world isn't men and women but folks who like cats and folks who like dogs" - (L.T.'s Theory of Pets)