“You are the Cassandra of colons.”

“Everything bleeds into everything and fiction is just this funny desperate little attempt to staunch the bleeding.”

“Let me tell you something, my wife died for Tuesdays ago. Cancer of the colon. We were married forty-one years. Now you stop feeling sorry for yourself and lose some of that pork of yours. Pretty girl like you - you don't want to do this yourself.”

“Sometimes you don't even know what you want until you find out you can't have it.”

“I believe that if you can't be absolutely certain of the outcome of your choices, then what difference does it make which path you choose?”

“Relationships take up energy; letting go of them, psychiatrists theorize, entails mental work. When you lose someone you were close to, you have to reassess your picture of the world and your place in it. The more your identity was wrapped up with the deceased, the more difficult the loss.”

“Burn like a bonfire in whatever you do”