“Like most people raised on American movies, I have poor access to my emotions, but can banter like a motherfucker.”

“what a fascinating mix a hospital can be of people in a huge hurry and people too slow to get out of their way.”

“Ah, youth. It's like heroin you've smoked instead of snorted. Gone so fast you can't believe you still have to pay for it.”

“So I'm on my way to work and I stop to watch a pigeon fight a rat in the snow, and some fuckhead tries to mug me!”

“But rituals turn us all into fucking idiots. Like those birds that sleep with their heads facing backwards because their ancestors slept with their heads under their wings. Plutarch says carrying new wives across thresholds is stupid because we don't remember that it refers to the rape of the Sabine women - and that's fucking Plutarch, two thousand years ago. We still draw the Reaper with a scythe. We should draw him driving a John Deere for Archer Daniels Midland.”

“If you're going to be soulless, you should at least consider outsourcing your conscience to someone else.”

“The journey from shame to resentment is the shortest on there is.”