“There are only two mantras, yum and yuck, mine is yum.”

“Madame Lily Devalier always asked "Where are you?" in a way that insinuated that there were only two places on earth one could be: New Orleans and somewhere ridiculous.”

“There have been cans of dog food more splendiferous than South Richmond. Land mines more tender.”

“There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who are smart enough to know better.”

“Some marriages are made in heaven,Mine was made in Hong Kong, by the same people who make those little rubber pork chops they sell in the pet department at Kmart.”

“like two r's trapped in a spanish songbook, tilli and max lurked in their shoebox castle, waiting to be rolled.”

“Funny how we think of romance as always involving two, when the romance of solitude can be ever so much more delicious and intense.”