“Oh, Falkor!”

“Many Americans would die naked in the middle of the road before they'd tell you what's hurt them most. But a born Southerner will show you the cell in their heart that burns the hardest. They'll hold it out to you in their bare right hand.”

“The avant-garde is now an arrière-garde.”

“I felt the way I feel sometimes right before you go to sleep, when all you want to do is sleep, and then suddenly, when you're almost there, when your mind goes dizzy and it's almost like you don't have a body at all, your remember how long the night is, how you might not wake back up. And like a shock, you're sitting straight up, scared to do the thing you've done every day of your life.”

“Do you think my Cyn would like a souvenir?" he asked Duncan.Duncan leaned sideways to study the dripping organ."probably not, My lord.”

“Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get his laundry done.”

“Life is short and often stingy; feast the heart with what it craves, short of cruelty, and let the world wonder.”