“I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it.”

“In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums.”

“She felt about a love set as a painter does about his masterpiece; each ace serve was a form of brushwork to her, and her fantastically accurate shot-placing was certainly a study in composition.”

“She had storms all her life, but she died peacefully.”

“History looks queer when you're standing close to it, watching where it is coming from and how it's being made.”

“Stephanie, I'm begging you. Eat some doughnuts. I can't keep going like this." - Morelli”

“Mr. Landowsky was eighty-two and somehow his chest had shrunk over the years, and now he was forced to hike his pants up under his armpits. "Oi," he said. "This heat! I can't breathe. Somebody should do something."I assumed he was talking about God. "That weatherman on the morning news. He should be shot. How can I go out in weather like this? And then when it gets so hot they keep the supermarkets too cold. Hot, cold. Hot, cold. It gives me the runs." I was glad I owned a gun, because when I got as old as Mr. Landowsky I was going to eat a bullet. The first time I got the runs in the supermarket, that was it. BANG! It would all be over.”