“On the drive we talked easily, but we did make a small detour. After pulling into a rest stop, we made out like teenagers.”

“I'm driving so it's your job to make small talk.""Oh.""Not that small." He waved at the security guard as we left the club. "Make medium talk.”

“We make a lot of detours, but we're always heading for the same destination”

“But when we consider how small after all the cup of human enjoyment is, how soon overflowed with tears, how easily drained to the dregs in our quenchless thirst for infinity, we shall not blame ourselves for making so much of the tea-cup.”

“It's not the fledgling birds that are thrown out of the nest by their parents and made to fly; it's the parents who are made to get the hell out of cozy family nest by their teenage offspring. It's we who are made to be independent of them, crash-landing if we don't manage it.”

“From the look of us, you'd never know we slept in the same bed last night and made out like the world was going to end if we stopped.”