“Godiva was tired and old and Gertrude Stein in spring bought a new car...”

“In the menu, there should be a climax and a culmination. Come to it gently. One will suffice.”

“You had to wonder who all these people in their cars were leaving behind and who they were driving toward, and if they knew that in the distance, the echo of their tires on the asphalt sounded like a river, and that to someone like me, it could seem like the miracle I'd been looking for.”

“That spring he found the old bear, dead, in one of the caves. He slept beside the body. He dreamed the bear was his father. That was when he gave up being human. He gave her up as well.”

“Twenty-four year olds were my new favourite thing. I needed to tell Oprah to put them on her list.”

“You are all a lost generation.[with credit to Gertrude Stein]”

“When is this old moneybags doing to give up and die as any decent man would do? I am tired of standing at his door.”