“And we spend the rest of the evening getting very pissed and eating ice cream, as we always do when something good or bad happens to either one of us.”

“We are going to eat ice cream and we are going to eat shit. The trick is to use different spoons.”

“If your arteries are good, eat more ice cream. If they are bad, drink more red wine. Proceed thusly.”

“We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.”

“In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.”

“Eliza got vanilla ice cream with butterscotch sauce, whipped cream, and a cherry. She asked me to get chocolate ice cream with hot fudge and marshmallows. This way, she explained, we could share without overlapping flavors. Except she was pretty goddamn stingy with hers. She only gave me one bite. Meanwhile I was supposed to let her eat half of mine.”