“No man is an island but every woman is. That's why we build bridges.”

“And we all know how ladies get minks . . .”Popsy and Sandra chorused the answer together. “The same way minks get minks!”

“You went to the catamaran with him?" Marcus couldn't believe what he was hearing. "You've been boating together?""Yes, boating--not boinking--boating!" Rosie screeched.”

“984; 85; 3; 63;, 1,000,000 The Eiffel Tower is nine hundred eighty-four feet high. On a clear day, you can see eighty-five miles from the top. It has three elevators. Each elevator can carry sixty-three people. It cost about one million dollars to build Eiffel Tower.”

“There must have been a real mess on the tracks,’ Lorna said, ‘They shut down the F train line for a whole two hours for you. Two hours! And in rush hour!’My final achievement. Man, I hoped Mom was getting that put on my gravestone. Here lies Charlotte Feldman. She pissed off commuters. A lot.”

“I'll probably never fully become what I wanted to be when I grew up, but that's probably because I wanted to be a ninja princess.”

“I know there’s this ongoing Portland/Brooklyn spar for über hipdom (and I have to be careful here, because my agent lives in Brooklyn), but Portland is the least derivative place I’ve ever been. The folks here do what they do in defiance of norm or trend. The spirit of authenticity in Portland is as contagious as a February flu.”