“The combination of razor-sharp wit (completely real) and his credentials (completely fake) had won them over in the end.”
“In a span of months she had present for birth and for death, the wondrous first breath and the horrible last. But wasn't it an honor to be there at the end of life as well as the beginning? To mark the extraordinariness of a lifetime, to bear witness to its completion?”
“I’ve said over and over again jokingly that the only way a woman can truly be completely satisfied is to get herself four different men—an old one, an ugly one, a Mandingo, and a gayguy. Now the four of them combined? They got you covered.”
“He owns them more completely than if he had seized their balls in his hands”
“Fretting over how life ends, or anything else for that matter, is a complete waste of time.”
“I’ve perfected the art of the fake smile. It’s not so difficult when you are completely numb.”