“This, Calvin realised, as Joey grinned and told him sweetly to Suck that dick was what it was like to be God: utter confidence, utter trust, utter ease with yourself, no move you could not make, no...”

“His face clouded over when Calvin and Peachy tried to explain women. Peachy pressed on bravely. Now, the purpose of the vagina, he was saying. He stopped and said to Calvin, Why cant we just buy hi...”

“There are certain things every gay man has to know.”

“Fuck you, diet, said Stuart. The diet schmeer is the end of civilisation as we know it.”

“The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.”

“Yeah, the whole family knows. It's no big deal. One night at dinner I said, 'Mom, you know the forbidden love that Spock has for Kirk? Well, me too.' It was easier for her to understand that way.”

“I love you. The words reverberated between them, sinking into their skin, scored onto their hearts as they staked their claims to each others bodies, surrendering themselves and possessing each oth...”

“Men are so isolated, prisoners of their own wretched selves, that they can be unbelievably sociable.”

“It was male, of course; menace is always male. ("Nightmare")”

“There are many things that make a man irritable when he arrives home from work in the evening and a sensible wife will usually notice the storm-signals and will leave him alone until he simmers down.”

“Oblivion, she thought. That was the world she lived in. It was what they should name some countries, towns, and places.”

“A lot of men wouldn't like being called a romantic. It's not macho enough.'Quite often men are fools.”