“Judging by your face, the what-the-fuck nodes in your cerebral cortex must be a real light show.”

“I was also one of those people who hadnt caught up with the latest social networking site. Maura belonged to most of them. She passed most evenings befriending men who had tried to date-rape her in...”

“They werent like dolls, because dolls had no feelings. Kids had feelings, just not any remotely related to yours.”

“You pay a whore to make you feel like a man, you fund a philharmonic to make yourself feel like a refined man.”

“I felt as though I were snorting cocaine, or rappelling down a cliffside, or cliffsurfing off a cliff of pure cocaine.”

“Wed been walking in endless rectangles and now we were near the candy store again. The lights were out, the security gate down. We leaned up against the wall of a bank and I could feel the cool sto...”

“If you want romance, fuck a journalist.”

“That's the thing with keeping up appearances, Rose; people will do anything to get one and anything to keep one.”

“I had never seen the end of day and the beginning of the night greet each other. We were caught in the loveliness between the two. A House Like a Lotus”