“She really did like me, the idiot.”

“She looked up and ran her eyes over me,slowly, while I stood and wondered why. Had she forgotten what I looked like? But she finished with a big smile. She really did like me, the idiot.”

“Now I know what it is like to feel like a total idiot.”

“It’s like, everything really is two ways, the way we all pretend it is and the way it really is”

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

“She had searched for just the right guy; sensitive and gentle and willing to wait. Quite a long search, of course. She was looking for some imaginary man who cared more about having someone to talk to and see movies with than he needed to have sex, because she was just Not Ready for That. Did I say imaginary? Well yes. Human men are not like that.”

“I enjoyed watching good-looking idiots looking at each other. A great spectator sport.”