“Deep in Decemberit's nice to remember without a hurt the heart is hollow.”

“There is a curious paradox that no one can explain. Who understands the secret of the reaping of the grain? Who understands why Spring is born out of Winter’s laboring pain, or why we must all die a bit before we grow again? I do not know the answer; I merely know it’s true. I hurt them for that reason, and myself a little bit too.”

“You're...standing...in...my...KUMQUATS!”

“Despite what pretty poets say, the night is only half the day.”

“As we watched the soldiers and the Rambo disappear I remember feeling preternaturally calm. This is what deep, deep fear does to you. It turns you into a state of unfeeling.”

“it had expanded in a nice, welcoming way, becoming ever rounder and softer without losing its essential shapeliness”

“Beer's nice for being glad and dizzy, and sometimes for the mystery and stuff, but the happy that comes out of a beer can is not like the real happy you got to make in your heart.”