“...and I decide to stop inwardly composing the feminist world court's prosecutorial summation to the jury.”

“I cannot imagine a world in which one can read Jane Austen only once.”

“Tonight, however, all I can think of is the juxtaposition of destiny and free will, and whether it makes no difference what I do, or all the difference in the world.”

“Most intelligent men and women like to go forth into the world and stalk their own prey, choose their own mirrors of dysfunction . . . .”

“You know, it is a little known fact that thinking is entirely overrated. The world would be a much better place if we all did a lot less of it”

“But I know that any man whose very presence incites me to nearly throw away my reputation-or whatever shreds of it remain-is someone I must avoid at any cost.”

“It seems there is nothing I cannot find out from my oracle, the computer.”