"...a young man, Jamaican, perhaps, his head circled in a scarf with sunbleached dreadlocks on piled on top, looking like a plate of soft-shell crabs."

"I opened the show with this line: "I have decided to give the greatest performance of my life! Oh, wait, sorry, that's tomorrow night."

"She is nearing forty and not so easily forgiven as when her skin bloomed like roses."

"I guess I wouldn't believe in anything anymore if it weren't for my lucky astrology mood watch."

"I guess I wouldn't believe in anything anymore if it weren't for my lucky astrology mood watch."

"Mirabelle is not affected by a man’s failures to approach her, as her own self-depreciating attitude never allows the idea that he would in the first place."

". . . Now you see . . . they' re not fit for humans . . ." "Put them on me."

"I just gave my cat a bath. Now how do I get all this fur off my tounge?"

"I just believe that the interesting time in a career is pre-success, what shaped things, how did you get to this point?"

"So, I can hurt now, or hurt later."

"Unlike Ray Porter, his love is fearless and without reservation."

"Lord loves a workin' man; don't trust whitey"

"Anyway, seeking work is a tad difficult given the poor design of the streets with their prohibitive curbs and driveways that don't quite line up."

"Mirabelle is attractive; it's just that she is never the first or second girl chosen."

"How many people have never raised their hand before?"

"…when the person beside you is making you alert and keen and the idea of being with anyone else is not imaginable…"

"Lacy was just as happy alone as with company. When she was alone, she was potential; with others she was realized."

"She was feeling her bohemian oats."

"When someone less capable is ahead of me, I am not pleased. It makes me insane."

"With a cheery delicacy she divided my obsessions into three categories: acceptable, unacceptable, and hilarious."

"I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is."

"...just remember, darling, it is pain that changes our lives."

"There are few takers for the quiet heart."

"You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, 'This is art, and you can't do it."