“In novels, women run off with their lovers. In real life, women stay.”
“Then the children went to bed, or at least went upstairs, and the men joined the women for a cigarette on the porch, absently picking ticks engorged like grapes off the sleeping dogs. And when the men kissed the women good night, and their weekend whiskers scratched the women's cheeks, the women did not think shave, they thought stay.”
“As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.”
“Novels are about men and women and children and dogs, not politics.”
“Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.”
“All my life I'd gone for women who were a little off.”