“Twin miracles of mascara, her eyes looked like the corpses of two small crows that had crashed into a chalk cliff.”

“What if there are not only two nostrils, two eyes, two lobes, and so forth, but two psyches as well, and they are separately equipped? They go through life like Siamese twins inside one person … They can be just a little different, like identical twins, or they can be vastly different, like good and evil.”

“So here the twins were laid low at Aeneas' hands,
down they crashed like lofty pine trees axed.”

“Her joy with him was like nothing she had ever experienced. His love for her felt like a miracle.”

“Life is such a miracle, a series of small miracles. It really is, if you learn how to look at it with the right perspective.”

“I was working on this movie and the makeup artist was just so ugly! I just wanted to say "Physician, heal thyself!" She looked exactly like Aaron Neville, and she was trying her hardest to make me look exactly like Aaron Neville. This one time, she leaned into my face with the mascara wand almost touching my eye and she says, "Whass my name?"”

“Madri thought of the twin Aswins, who coming unto her with speed begat upon her two sons that were twins named Nakula and Sahadeva, unrivalled on earth for personal beauty.”

“Her eyes always had a frantic, lost look. He could never cure her eyes of that.”

“I'm back at my cliff
still throwing things off
I listen to the sounds they make
on their way down
I follow with my eyes 'til they crash
imagine what my body would sound like slamming against those rocks
and when it lands
will my eyes
be closed or open?”

“I wish I had a twin, so I could know what I'd look like without plastic surgery.”