“The gaping trunk looked like the mouth of a village idiot who was explaining that he didn't know anything about anything.”

“So all in all there wasn't anything really wrong with my life. Except that, like most everyone else's I knew about, it had a big gaping hole in it, an enormous emptiness, and I didn't know how to fill it or even know what belonged there.”

“I listened to Karen Woo give an explaination of photosynthesis once," he said. "God only knows why they were discussing photosynthesis.They hung on her every word, like she was a PBS special. Her explaination didn't even involve sunlight. These people will believe anything. They will say anything.”

“But who bothers looking beyond the surface? Who even knows anything about Cinderella's Prince Charming - other than he's a handsome prince?”

“If Henry Miller often sounded like a village idiot, it is because, like Whitman, he was the rest of the village as well.”

“It felt like there was a whole world living inside her. I didn't know anything about that world.”