“...his girl was on the tentacles of expectation about it.(From Mr. Humphreys and his Inheritance)”

“But no one ever is allowed in Sleepytown, unlessHe goes to bed in time to take the Sleepytown Express!”

“Reason is the hero who breaks the chains of our prejudice, saving us from the prison of our comfortable acquiescence in the way of the world.”

“Like one of those damned clapper lights. Love on. Love off.Robert musing about his parents love for him”

“For the scientist, at exactly the moment of discovery—that most unstable existential moment—the external world, nature itself, deeply confirms his innermost fantastic convictions. Anchored abruptly in the world, Leviathan gasping on his hook, he is saved from extreme mental disorder by the most profound affirmation of the real.”

“He didn’t get it—guys like that never flirted with men like him.In spite of the fact he was a cop, which he liked to hope had givenhim a little bit of visible macho cool after eight years on the job,his sister still said his looks and style were “nerd meets librarian,”which to him meant he was about as bland as they came. Notexactly a balm to his ego. The man sprawled out in the chair overhis right shoulder, however, didn’t have a bland bone in his comeon-baby-you-know-you-want-to-fuck-me body.”

“Eva," Jason said, leaning over to his fiancée as I took a seat next to Tyler. "How you doin'?"Eva made a face and pushed him away. "Nope, doesn't work for everyone. Not even you.""But it's "The Joey"-- it has to work!" Jason said, sitting back and taking a sip from his water bottle.”