If I am the pawn of the gods, it is because they know me so well, not because they make my mind up for me.

He lies to himself. If Eugenides talked in his sleep, he'd lie then, too.

That was the message. For me, alone among mortals, the gods send their messenger to tell me to stop whining. That’ll teach me to go hide in a temple.

At one point in your life you have to decide whether you want to become a sachem or a solitary.

It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed from all eternity than to conceive a Being beyond its limits capable of creating it.

The drummer is stereotypically the dumb guy. Maybe that's why I always respect drummers who do more than drum.

Dying's tough - but not as tough as comedy.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

nursing was regarded as simply an extension of the unpaid services performed by the housewife - a characteristic attitude that haunts the profession to this day.

Feel the feelings and drop the story.

I wish I knew all the answers, how to be perfect, attractive and witty. But I'm just a human being with all the regular faults and it seems no matter how hard I try, I can't change that.

There is something out of gear about graded schools and all that. Memory is developed at the expense of what in general we are pleased to call thought and character.

What an electric heater perched upon the rim of the bathtub of the world that dead Jesus was.