“Miller was staring at him like an entomologist trying to figure out exactly where the pin went.”

“Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You'll find me there, staring out at you!”

“We have to figure this out, Jackson, so leash the lust.”
His chin went up as he stared down at her. “Woman, you ask the impossible.”
“Do it anyway!”

“In our minds we tried to pin her to a corkboard like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew”

“Jason looked like her was trying to figure out an equation. "Let me get this straight. Your table ran away… because you polished him with windex.”

“If Rushdie turned up at my doorstep looking for help, I might ring somebody who might do more damage to him than he would like. I'd try to phone the Ayatollah Khomeini and tell him exactly where this man is.”

“[the 'Surfboards' - series works Noland made mid-70's] were almost like cut-out figures without being figurative… I think of them, in some way, as being like figures; they remind me of figures in vertical Cubist paintings. Even the small pictures have that kind of human proportion in the rectangles. It's not exactly a reference, but the relation of length to width in the rectangles is like a person.”

“I didn't try to hit him. I just tried to make my pitch and the ball went out of my hand.”

“If Miller had ever been called upon to describe her, the phrase deceptive coloration would have figured in.”

“Figure out what we are really trying to do....”