“It's like the old pie-in-the-face routine: it stops being funny when it starts being you.”

“It stops being funny, when it starts being you.”

“It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.”

“Now I'm just like everybody else, and it's so funny, the way monogamy is funny, the waysomeone falling down in the street is funny.I entered a revolving door and emergedas a human being. When you think of meis my face electronically blurred?”

“Funny how it kept hitting me, like each new thing was a surprise. When was I going to stop being surprised?”

“It's easy to like someone from a distance. But when she stopped being this amazing unattainable thing or whatever, and started being, like, just a regular girl with a weird relationship with food and frequent crankiness wh's kind of bossy--then I had to basically start liking a whole different person.”