“You know how hard it is to actually touch the world? To make a mark on it? You die and they bury you in it.”

“He tried to imagine the handsome couple by the refrigerator as two sweaty bodies in a bedroom, one on top of the other. Which did what to the other? Mills kept rotating the two men in his mind, whi...”

“Thats what children eventually were for their aging parents: custodians of technology, free personal IT departments keeping them from disappearing forever from the universal cloud.”

“Mills was experienced enough to understand what gay men were often forced to be in this world: romantic opportunists.”

“Women had cup sizes to track their development. Men had a ruler and hope.”

“Paul needed to come out, not as gay or straight, but as human.”

“The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.”

“At the age of 45, most days in Tucson were spent feeling like I was on the summit of Mauna Kea, as I was exhibiting debilitating health symptoms that corresponded to what I saw at very high altitud...”

“The hour is only long thus, if you've waited.”

“I'll say it: I want to see an ugly woman as a spokeswoman for a women's network. Ugly men are out there all the time look at Larry King, for God's sake. He looks like someone's talking underwear. ...”

“It was the way she looked at me the whole time. That look said more than she ever could and, in turn, scared me more than her words alone ever could.”

“The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.”