“When I was your age, I would go to plays all the time, just sit in the darkness and try to take it all in inside me. Contain everything in some corner of my heart so that when I had my shot, it cou...”

“All my memories are things I gave away, traded for new days after days after days...”

“It tugs at me, filling me with the kind of seasick nostalgia that can hit you in the gut when you find an old concert ticket in your purse or an old coin machine ring you got down at the boardwalk ...”

“The road to success is paved with the hot asphalt of failure.”

“If you fall from a plane onto a river, and survived, it is luck, but if you fall from a plane onto asphalt ground, and survived, then that is a miracle.”

“The Cottage Diners homey lights glowed onto black asphalt which just sucked up the beams to spit out more shadows.”

“I'd still thought that everything I thought about that night-the shame, the fear-would fade in time. But that hadn't happened. Instead, the things that I remembered, these little details, seemed to...”

“You know, you're too pretty for me to leave you on the couch like that," he said, pulling me toward him. I didn't know that, but I did understand then that there was no such thing as safe, only saf...”

“Not being assaulted is not a privilege to be earned through the judicious application of personal safety strategies. A woman should be able to walk down the street at 4 in the morning in nothing bu...”

“Her latest client is Professor Desmond Curnin, a university professor who teaches library sciences to large groups of students. Hes quick to pay on-time, quick to never fall behind. Hes a brown-hai...”

“I have the most fantastic, stupendous, magnificent idea. Why its better than television," he said, standing there in red, tartan pyjamas, his beard in a sleepy tangle. Dunn's Magnificent Idea”

“By the power of Steven Wright's Beard!”