“Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.”

“If you're a man and you've ever been antique shopping during a big football game, you're either gay or married.”

“I like to ride in trains too much. You never get to sit next to the window anymore when you're married.”

“I always wanted to leave home. I never knew they were going to stop me from coming back. Maybe, if I knew, I never would have left. It is kind of painful to be away from everything that you've ever know. Nobody will know the pain of exile until you are in exile. No matter where you go, there are times when people show you kindness and love, and there are times when they make you know that you are with them but not of them. That's when it hurts.”

“Music is like you touch the pulse of the world. Music is always happening, and sometimes you get to touch it for a while, and when you do you know that everything's connetcted to everything else.”

“If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.”

“I'm not going to get married again, I think I'll just find a woman that hates me, then buy her a house.”

“It was awkward, revisiting a world you have never seen before: like coming home, after a long journey, to someone else’s house.”

“Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. the illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws you on. What else could? As pathological phenomena go, it doesn't completely wreck your life.”

“I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.”