“He was more of a cut-a-wisebrack-and-run-for-cover kind of guy.”

“Good guy. There was efficiency to male language. Those two words were what guys said about other guys that they really respected. Guys they could count on, that were solid, whose word you trusted...The language for the other kind of men-even more efficient. Cut down to a single word they deserved. Asshole.”

“Are you an Is there? or a There isn’t! kind of person? I’m more of an Is there isn’t? kind of guy.”

“Patch wasn't the kind of guy mothers smiled on. He was the kind of guy they changed the house locks for.”

“Humorists are precisely the kinds of guys who can cut through the orgy of petty indignation that the aging baby boomers are imposing on this great country.”

“I can already tell he isn't the kind of guy a girl gets a simple crush on. He's the kind of guy you fall hard for, and the thought of that terrifies me.”