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.

The audience goes to sleep really quickly! If you have a slight pause at the wrong time, that's it!

I'm very old-fashioned. I believe that people should stay married for life, like pigeons and Catholics.

Should I marry W.? Not if she won't tell me the other letters in her name.

I don't have to 'freedom-kiss' my wife when what I really want to do is French-kiss her.

My relationship with death remains the same - I'm strongly against it.

Real software engineers don't debug programs, they verify correctness. This process doesn't necessarily involve execution of anything on a computer, except perhaps a Correctness Verification Aid package. Sex without love is an empty experience, but, as empty experiences go, it's one of the best.