“I like the idea of stopping mid-sentence, like Graham Greene.”

“I'm not a fast reader. I like to linger over each sentence, enjoying the style. If I don't enjoy the writing, I stop.”

“I don't think anybody's necessarily ready for death. You can only hope that when it approaches, you feel like you've said what you wanted to say. Nobody wants to go out in mid-sentence.”

“I do not like green eggs and ham.
I do not like them, Sam-I-Am.”

“I moved through the days like a severed head that finishes a sentence.”

“I ached once, hard, like a period typed at the end of a sentence.”

“Trying to be Sherlock Holmes is like trying to catch an arrow in mid-flight.”

“In a herber green, asleep where I lay,
The birds sang sweet in the mids of the day;
I dreamed fast of mirth and play.
In youth is pleasure, in youth is pleasure.”

“I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop.”

“Twenty-three is old. It's almost 25, which is like almost mid-20s.”