If I had my way...We would lock ourselves away from that madness out there...
Small world, huh?She grinned lewdly. Not particularly. I’d say you’ve just run out of material.
Footnotes to a feeling
Laugh all you want and cry all you want and whistle at pretty men in the street and to hell with anybody who thinks you're a damned fool!
C’mon, let’s go join those tedious people.
It occurred to Michael that this was the great perk of being loved: someone to wait for you, someone to tell you that it will get easier up ahead. Even when it might not be true.
Uh … you know, strict. With occasional lapses into lacto and ovo, huh? Yes. Except on weekends and nights when I’m stoned. Then I’m a steako-lacto-ovo … or maybe a porkchopo-lacto-ovo…
It all goes so fast, she thought. We dole out our lives in dinner parties and plane flights, and it's over before we know it. We lose everyone we love, if they don't lose us first, and every single th...
What about San Francisco?What about it?Did you like it?She shrugged. It was O.K.Just O.K.?She laughed. Good God!What?You're all alike here.How so? he asked.You demand adoration for the place. You're n...
I couldn't write—or wouldn't write, at any rate—unable to face the grueling self-scrutiny that fiction demands
She was Anna Madrigal, a self-made woman, and there was no one else in the world exactly like her.
We’re gonna be … I mean people like you and me … we’re gonna be fifty-year-old libertines in a world full of twenty-year-old Calvinists.
Over the next eight years, almost without noticing, I arrived at a quiet revelation. You could make a home by yourself. You could fill that home with friends and friendly strangers without someone sle...
You cannot be loved by someone who doesn't want to know you.
Like I've always said, love wouldn't be blind if the braille weren't so damned much fun.
Life goes on, sport.
It’s time to get mad, Michael. Niceness doesn’t count for shit!
That’s all I know, except that he’s probably straight. The landlady gave him a sly smile. That’s what he told you? He’s probably straight? He laughed. Well, he’s currently in love with Bruce Springste...
I busted my butt trying to be everything to one person. Finally, I had to settle for being one thing to every person.
Garbage, you know, is very revealing.It beats the shit out of tarot cards.
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