"I love like a leaf in the wind. Please, hold your applause until the end of the performance (the last day of fall)."
"I have an 8th grade education. Of course, I also have a bachelor’s degree."
"I want to go to Martha’s Vineyard. I have an aunt named Martha. And an uncle by that name. Neither one is related to me."
"Writers fish for the right words like fishermen fish for, um, whatever those aquatic creatures with fins and gills are called."
"Nobody can make you feel ignorant but you—the you from before, the one who skipped school and slept in class. By you, of course, I mean me."
"With my last breath, I’ll exhale my love for you. I hope it’s a cold day, so you can see what you meant to me."