“I left this conversation hours ago, but somehow my mouth is still moving, words are still forming, and none have seemed to offend. Amazing, the mind. My mind, I mean. Not hers.”

“I stared at her - unable to accept that at one time I was growing inside her. I was once just a couple of cells. My father and my mother were naked something had to be satisfactory about it, becaus...”

“In a cement park across the street is this giant sculpture. It is a giant umbrella frame lying on its side. It's green. Stand under it, during a rainstorm, you'll still get wet - that's why it's art.”

“Gilbert?"Some days I hate all those who know my name.”

“Who's calling?""Don't insult me like that," the voice says.I stop. Was I just insulting?”

“Wait a minute, I'm thinking, was this another one of those conversations where what is meant and what is being said are not the same thing?”

“Personally, I was never the cool kid. I was always sort of a bookworm.”

“I was a sports kid.”

“I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.”

“We are here on earth for a while.”

“It's who you is when folks knocks at the door of your heart what counts. Hide the past and it gives them what's jealous of you the power to bring you undone.”

“In the dark , everything is scary”