“I'm very good at the past. It's the present I can't understand.”

“I guess I should have forgotten about it ages ago, but forgetting isn't something I'm very good at.”

“I'm still not a very good white wine, but I'm drinkable - you could put me in a punch, anyway.”

“I'm a good person. In most ways. But I'm beginning to think that being a good person in most ways doesn't count for anything very much, if you're a bad person in one way.”

“I can't tell you how good and bad I felt. Yes I can: I felt like a baked Alaska.”

“Seeing as he wasn’t very bright, I was pretty sure that he was going to be good at fighting.”

“The truth about autobiographical songs, he realized, was that you had to make the present become the past, somehow: you had to take a feeling or a friend or a woman and turn whatever it was into something that was over, so that you could be definitive about it. You had to put it in a glass case and look at it and think about it until it gave up its meaning.”