Pale, nervous girls with black-rimmed glasses and blunt-cut hair lolled around on sofas, riffling Penguin Classics provocatively. [...] But it wasn’t just intellectual experiences—they were peddling emotional ones, too. For fifty bucks, I learned, you could “relate without getting close.” For a hundred, a girl would lend you her Bartok records, have dinner, and then let you watch while she had an anxiety attack.

I wish I could think of a positive point to leave you with. Will you take two negative points?

Why ruin a good story with the truth?

Sometimes some of the best moments are contributed by the actors being creative, with their own improvisations.

Those who can't do, teach. And those who can't teach, teach gym.

I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer.

Side Effects Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on the weekend. Woody Allen Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.