There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal.

He looked so profoundly disappointed in me that I wondered for a moment if he was someone I knew.

As long as she was falling in love with me, I might as well start making her promises I didn't intend to keep.

Although it wasn't raining anymore, the air was still heavy with water, and rain gutters were ringing all over Point Breeze.

[His coat] emitted an odor of bus station so desolate that just standing next to him you could feel your luck changing for the worse.

There is no such thing as reproduction, only acts of production.

You said you want to leave a mark on my heart. You did

Sometimes milestones are not measured by the accomplishments of society, but by those of integrity.

Push the needle into some middle range of guarded optimism.

The more they applaud, the bigger your salary will be.

Ask me that again next month, when you're all in Dhaka and I'm in Rome, watching Chelsea playing Lazio!

... wealth and female softness equally tend to debase mankind!

Lust should be stifled, for it cannot lead to truth.

Here Spring just grows and greens and warms, spreading life, wrapping us in her arms, until suddenly we realize that she's not a girl anymore. She's a woman. A woman named Summer.