Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest.

Well, luck is for fools. It's all they have to hope for, poor devils.

He felt like a compass needle. The needle knows nothing about magnetic north; it only knows it must point in a certain direction, like it or not.

It's worked! Our marriage has outlasted all of the world leaders, except for Castro. And if we keep talking, arguing, making love and dancing to the Ramones- it'll probably keep working.

You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you.

Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up.