“Keep dating and you will become so sick, so badly crippled, so deformed, so emotionally warped and mentally defective that you will marry anybody.”
“So you see, Hell's not so bad if you get to keep an angel with you.”
“Have you ever had a date so bad, it makes you contemplate a lobotomy?”
“It's at moments like these in a game that the essentials of his character are exposed: narrow, ineffectual, stupid—and morally so. The game becomes an extended metaphor of character defect. Every error he makes is so profoundly, so irritatingly typical of himself, instantly familiar, like a signature, like a tissue scar or some deformation in a private place.”
“It was because a great-looking man with no apparent mental defects found her attractive. Imagine feeling so buoyant over something so juvenile.”
“If you close your emotions off so the bad stuff can't get in. You make it so the good stuff can't get in either.”