“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”

“A truth should exist, it should not be used like this. If I love you is that a fact or a weapon?”

“Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.”

“Potential has a shelf life.”

“Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.”

“Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, ru...”

“Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space. If you can bend space you can bend time also, and if you knew enough and could move faster than light you could travel backw...”

“I look at him with the nostalgic affection men are said to feel for their wars, their fellow veterans. I think, I once threw things at this man. I threw a glass ashtray, a fairly cheap one w...”

“There I am, in the Grade Six class picture, smiling broadly. Happy as a clam, is what my mother says for happy. I am happy as a clam: hardshelled, firmly closed.”