“My own apathy is bone chilling.”

“It's an apathy so absolute that it's like a hole you might fall in.”

“And there's a freedom in apathy, a wild, dizzying liberation on which you can almost get drunk.”

“I didn't care about anything. And there's a freedom in apathy, a wild, dizzying liberation on which you can almost get drunk. You can do anything. Ask Kevin.”

“Casting my own eye down Fifth Avenue as my belly swelled, I would register with incredulity: Every one of these people came from a woman's cunt.”

“Yet in my experience, when left to their own devices people will get up to one of two things: nothing much, and no good.”

“I had created my own Other Woman who happened to be a boy. I'd seen this in-house cuckolding in other families, and it's odd that I'd failed to spot it in ours.”