“There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.”

“It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.”

“So such is life that it writes itself, trying to right itself, but there's nothing wrong with it.”

“[Marianne Moore] once remarked, after a visit to her brother and his family, that the state of being married and having children had one enormous advantage: "One never has to worry about whether one is doing the right thing or not. There isn't time. One is always having to go to the market or drive the children somewhere. There isn't time to wonder 'Is this right or isn't it?”

“We all convince ourselves of things like this- not necessarily about Say Anything, but about any fictionalized portrayals of romance that happen to hit us in the right place, at the right time.”

“I'm right and you're wrong, I'm big and you're small, and there's nothing you can do about it.”