“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”

“You'll stay with me?' Until the very end,' said James.”

“He can run faster than Severus Snape confronted with shampoo.”

“You must accept the reality of other people. You think that reality is up for negotiation, that we think it's whatever you say it is. You must accept that we are as real as you are; you must...”

“The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying about it, trying to be somebody else.”

“If she could have died...if she could have disappeared forever...but the solid surface of things refused to dissolve around her, and her body, her hateful hermaphrodite's body, continued in...”

“Sometimes, if she simply remained quiet, and let the inadequacy of his excuses reverberate on the air, he became ashamed and backtracked.”

“She seemed to think that one of the perks of marriage was that it gave you rights of comment and intrusion over single people's love lives.”