"“Anyone who sees Parsifal twice is a blithering idiot.” “You mean the movie.” “In any form. Land, sea, or in the air.…"

"“When I got married,” she says, “I married this guy who was a Catholic. So we had to get a priest to do the job. So I…"

"Something to be said for being fifty-three, you could enjoy the turning of the wheel. He feels every additional day a…"

"“What are you going to do after we leave?” she asks. “Go back to work, I guess.” “That what you want to do?” “Work is…"

"Dore is angry. She’s holding the box that the frozen pizza came in. “You’re actually going to feed us this pizza?” “W…"

"It’s an architectural problem, marriage. If we could live in separate houses, and visit each other when we feel parti…"

"Carol, when they were twenty-five and twenty-six, had been a smart-ass, an admirable smart-ass. “I love you but it’s …"

"“I once heard [Buckminster] Fuller speak for seven straight hours. I only understood a tenth of what he was saying. B…"

"Q: When I was first married, when I was twenty, I didn’t know where the clitoris was. I didn’t know there was such a …"

"He lost nine pounds (a great blessing) during the eight months they lived in the apartment. They had not been slow to…"