“Each of us, deep down, believes that the whole world issues from his own precious body, like images projected from a tiny slide onto an earth-sized screen. And then, deeper down, each of us knows h...”

“I'm a staunch monogamist. In practice, if not in theory. I can't help it. Do I acknowledge the oppressive, regressive nature of sexual exclusivity? Yes. Do I want that exclusivity very badly for my...”

“Only here, long after midnight, while everyone else was sleeping, when nothing was expected of him, could Schwartz convince himself that he was working hard enough. These hours felt stolen, added t...”

“It dawned on himas it hadnt before; he was dense, he was slowthat his parents were five hundred miles away. They could make him come home, they could refuse to pay the portion of his tuition theyd ...”

“He already knew he could coach. All you had to do was look at each of your players and ask yourself: What story does this guy wish someone would tell him about himself? And then you told the guy th...”

“AVERT DISASTER, in fact, would have been a perfect school mottothe purpose of the place, as far as Schwartz could tell, was to keep three thousand would-be maniacs sedated by boredom until a succes...”

“You see, in this country are a number of youths who do not like to work, and the college is an excellent place for them.”

“Sometimes the gap between what you are and what you want to be is a little piece of paper called your college degree. So jump.”

“I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life.”