“Was it too much to ask that she find someone who wanted the same things in life as she did--a home, someone to lean on when the not-so-perfect times came crashing down?”

“Love meant hope. Without love, life held no promise.”

“Today, when I stepped outside, I got shit on by a bird. But I'm still going back outside tomorrow.”

“Fate wouldn't create a man that drop-dead gorgeous and make him gay, would it? Oh yes, fate would.”

“Maybe I'm sad about wanting you. I'm not too comfortable with wanting someone.”

“One evening, at the time of the Six-Day War, I [Christopher Hitchens] had my wicked way with a lovely lady, who had earlier intimated that she did not perhaps find me entirely repulsive. We procured a decent room, as I remember, at the Cadogan Hotel. Perhaps a little flown with wine, I asked her to don a Martin Amis face mask which I had—with a combination of sticky tape, elastic bands, cardboard, and a much-treasured photograph—prepared earlier. The fair damsel was happy to oblige, and thus attired she permitted me to embark on the hugely agreeable pathway to libidinous fulfillment.”

“If thing is as clear as daylight, mistrust it! someone has made it so!”