“Being socially retarded is like being mentally retarded, it arouses in others disgust and pity and the desire to torment and reform.”

“The genres, it is thought, have other designs on us. They want to entertain, as opposed to rubbing our noses in the daily grit produced by the daily grind. Unhappily for realistic novelists, the larger reading public likes being entertained.”

“It was like being in an elevator cut loose at the top. Falling, falling, and not knowing when you will hit.”

“The moment of betrayal is the worst, the moment when you know beyond any doubt that you've been betrayed: that some other human being has wished you that much evil”

“I walk away from him. It's enormously pleasing to me, this walking away. It's like being able to make people appear and vanish, at will.”

“That’s what you get for being food.”

“Which of us can resist the temptation of being thought indispensable?”