“Life's only obligation, afterall, was to be interesting.”

“Perhaps because I'll never be one, humans are interesting to me.”

“I watched him as he lay there, taking the needle without flinching and knowing that even the relief it brought was temporary, that his end was coming and he could not stop it—and knowing, too, that he was not afraid, and that he would do this the right way, as he had done everything else in his life the right way. And I knew this, too: Harry understood me. No one else ever had, and no one else ever would, through all time in all the world. Only Harry. The only reason I ever thought about being human was to be more like him.”

“What a terrible thing life can be.”

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

“A man can take only so much. Even a phony man like me.”

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