“We were lining up and counting off nice and easy till you came stumbling through like a doped-up bull,' Minho responded.”

“Czech Republics worst pick up line: What's a nice place like this doing around a women like you? ”

“Books. They are lined up on shelves or stacked on a table. There they are wrapped up in their jackets, lines of neat print on nicely bound pages. They look like such orderly, static things. Then you, the reader come along. You open the book jacket, and it can be like opening the gates to an unknown city, or opening the lid of a treasure chest. You read the first word and you're off on a journey of exploration and discovery.”

“They count that as your birthday -- the day your mother gets up.""Not the day you were born?"Not the day you came out. They count the mother getting better as all part of the birth.”

“A line, a short line, stumbles off into the morning. Thirty two men.”

“There is no easy off button for your brain.It would be really really nice if there were.”