“Making love to him was like going through a car wash, except you came out dirtier and more alive at the other end.”

“I feel more alive when I'm writing than I do at any other time--except maybe when I'm making love.”

“I don’t like dirt, because nothing is dirtier. Except politics.
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“There was something wrong about thse people. But perhaps, just as it is true of my love, they could not go on living except in the way they do. If it is true that man, once born into the world, must somehow live out his life, perhaps the appearance that people make in order to go through with it, even if it is as ugly as their appearance, should not be despised. To be alive. To be alive. An intolerably immense undertaking before which one can only gasp in apprehension.”

“You look like you got more of a bath than the car. I neverthought washing a car would be so hard, but after watching you for the last fifteen minutes, I’m convinced it should be an Olympic sport.”

“What is this?' 'A Smart Car' It looked like an SUV took a dump and out came the Smart Car”