“When I'd originally loaded the car and held the door open for him, I'd had a passing impulse to pick him up bodily and insert him gently through the open window.”

“Sometimes I wish Jim Morrison were still alive, because I'd love to see a concert in which "The Doors" opened up for "The Cars.”

“If they had been riding in a car, she would have waited for him to go around and open the door for her, but riding in a truck is different”

“He had an extraordinarily casual air about him. I'd noticed that before, when he had tossed himself out the window.”

“Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.”

“If i opened the door would he be there? would he smile at me and show his dimples? Would his cheeks be scruffy because he needed a shave? Would he hug me? all i've wanted all these monthes was for him to be alive.But i'd seen him on the floor. i'd seen him in the coffin. And you can feel it when someone has died, you can feel that his soul is gone, just gone, the emptiness of his body.”