For most people, honesty is such an unusual departure from their standard modus operandi - such an abherration in their workaday mendacity - that they feel obliged to alert you when a moment of sincerity is coming on.
Zoë HellerWhen I tried to do something else, everyone behaved as if I was Gypsy Rose Lee trying to paint a Matisse.
Zoë Heller...what is romance, but a mutual pact of delusion? When the pact ends , there's nothing left.
Zoë Heller