“I think that's nice, and if I could have feelings at all I would have them for Deb.”

“And so Deb is the only person in the world who gives a rusty possum fart whether I live or die.”

“I did not like this feeling of having feelings.”

“If only I was capable of love, how I would have loved Harry.”

“The students we saw were all bright, attractive, and polite, and the teachers all seemed to be smart and dedicated, and I began to appreciate the benefits of a private school education. If only I'd had the opportunity to attend a place like this, who knows what I might have become? Perhaps instead of a mere blood-spatter analyst who slunk away at night to kill without conscience, I could have become a doctor, or a physicist, or even a senator who slunk away at night to kill without conscience. It was terribly sad to think of all my wasted potential.”

“That's why I liked him, I think. Another guy pretending to be human, just like me.”

“Anybody can be charming if they don't mind faking it, saying all the stupid, obvious, nauseating things that a conscience keeps most people from saying. Happily, I don't have a conscience. I say them.”