"In a cement park across the street is this giant sculpture. It is a giant umbrella frame lying on its side. It's green. Stand under it, during a rainstorm, you'll still get wet - that's why it's art."
- Peter Hedges
"I left this conversation hours ago, but somehow my mouth is still moving, words are still forming, and none have seemed to offend. Amazing, the mind. My mind, I mean. Not hers."
"I stared at her - unable to accept that at one time I was growing inside her. I was once just a couple of cells. My father and my mother were naked something had to be satisfactory about it, because h..."
"In the living room, the consensus among the guests was that Scotty’s looks favored his father, but the Judge was quick to disagree: ‘He doesn’t look a thing like me. He looks like an hors d'oeuvre.’He..."
"He loves to hide, but only if you take the time to find him. And while I suspect that's true for most people, only a retard or a kid would admit it."
"Who's calling?""Don't insult me like that," the voice says.I stop. Was I just insulting?"
"Wait a minute, I'm thinking, was this another one of those conversations where what is meant and what is being said are not the same thing?"
"Gilbert?"Some days I hate all those who know my name."
"She doesn't acknowledge Tucker, and there's no thank you for the cigarettes. She says a person shows their gratitude by action, not by words. So I guess that means she thanks me by smoking every cigar..."
"It's supposed to go bing-bing or bong-bong or ding-ding when tires go over it. The one at Dave's stopped working several years ago, and he won't have it fixed because he feels as I do - that none of u..."