“A veteran of the gender wars.”

“My grandmother, who, when I visited, stared at me with the staggering, arrogant stare of the dying, the wise vapidity of the already gone; she refused to occupy the features of her face.”

“Your numbness is something perhaps you cannot help. It is what the world has done to you. But your coldness. That is what you do to the world.”

“I had never feared insomnia before--like prison, wouldn't it just give you more time to read?”

“I tried not to think of my one excursion to Whole Foods, over a year ago, where I found myself paralyzed by all the special food for special people, whose special murmurings seemed to be saying, "Out of my way! I want a Tofurkey!”

“This danish is too sweetish to finish.”

“It is like having a book out from the library.It is like constantly having a book out from the library.”