“Sometimes I feel like the punchline of God's favorite joke.”

“We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was always long ago, by someone now dead.”

“An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought.”

“I never realized how much of the pleasure of dining out is watching people, otherwise it feels like ordering in with better utensils.”

“Many of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel who does not like his part and does not believe in the play.”

“There’s danger in feeling,” Tess murmured. Although she could not begin to imagine what kind of pain Dante carried within him, she felt a kinship growing between them. Both alone, both adrift in their worlds. “I don’t want to feel anything for you, Dante.”“God, Tess. I don’t want to feel anything for you either.”

“Please Tell me what your favorite flavor of ice cream... is”