“People are either attracted to the unseemly or disapproving of it, or both; yet we try to sound superior to the unseemly by pretending to be amused by it or indifferent to it.”

“It was a sound like someone trying not to make a sound.”

“We will often do anything to pretend that nothing is on our minds.”

“This is a writer’s lesson: To learn that the sounds that we imagine can be the clearest, loudest sounds of all.”

“In this dirty minded world, you are either someone's wife or someone's whore. And if you're not either people think there is something wrong with you....but there is nothing wrong with me”

“Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them.”

“How we love to love things for other people; how we love to have other people love things through our eyes.”