“Who wants a stylus? You have to get them and put them away and you lose them. Yuck! Nobody wants a stylus.”

“There are the goods; if you want them, you can have them. If you do not want them, they would almost rather that you did not come and talk about them.”

“It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.”

“You can tell yourself that you would be willing to lose everything you have in order to get something you want. But it's a catch-22: all of those things you're willing to lose are what make you recognizable. Lose them, and you've lost yourself.”

“If you lose the dullards back in the dust, that's where they belong. You don't want them anyway.”

“No one wants to read poetry. You have to make it impossible for them to put the poem down--impossible for them to stop reading it, word after word. You have to keep them from closing the book.”

“In my experience women are like cats. When you don't want them you can't get rid of them and when you do want them it's like trying to pick up lint with a magnet. (p. 267)”

“The things she most wanted to tell him would lose their meaning the moment she put them into words.”

“Having people be impressed with a house is not a compliment. You don't want them to say, 'What a place!' You want them to sit down and enjoy it.”

“Wanting and waiting will keep you away from your desires, actions will bring you closer to them.”