“Whenever you see, in an official lectionary, the command to omit two or three verses, you can normally be sure that they contain words of judgment. Unless, of course, they are about sex.”

“A passport, as I'm sure you know, is a document that one shows to government officials whenever one reaches a border between two countries, so that the official can learn who you are, where you were born, and how you look when photographed unflatteringly.”

“So? There's two of us and one of you, and whenever we feel like it, we can be three. That's love too, you know.”

“There is nothing like soup. It is by nature eccentric: no two are ever alike, unless of course you get your soup in a can.”

“When I’m with you," he began again, "it’s like… I still don’t feel normal. But I can see normal at twelve o’clock on the horizon." He pointed past me, through the windshield of an imaginary airplane. "At least I know normal is still out there. I’ve spent the last three months not sure of that at all.”

“That's something I've noticed about food: whenever there's a crisis if you can get people to eating normally things get better.”