In referring to her earlier statement that he had was not her type because he was "a dollar short when it came to maturity and a day late when it came to peace." I may have been wrong about that," she conceded. "You are a complicated man, but happily complicated. You have found a way to be at home with the world's confusion, a way to embrace the chaos rather than struggle to reduce it or become its victim. It's all part of the game to you, and you are delighted to play. In that regard, you may have reached a more elevated plateau of harmony than...ummph.

If you want to make a name for yourself, the oldest trick in the book is to attack what everybody else reveres.

Outlaws are can openers in the supermarket of life.

My life is not merely a public phenomenon, it is a solitary adventure as well.

People who sacrifice beauty for efficiency get what they deserve. (Bernard Mickey Wrangle, p 99)

Don't be outraged, be outrageous.

This did not annoy Amanda for it had long been her theory that human beings were invented by water as a device for transporting itself from one place to another.