"“Sight-seeing is the art of disappointment,” I quoted."

“I had a productive day, without the distraction of conversation.”

“His nation of liberty was founded on the backs of Negro slaves and at the cost of exterminating the aborigines. As far as I can tell, the Yankee’s idea of freedom is his right to carry a pistol with which he may shoot strangers in the street.”

“How could millennia-old superbeings be so boring?”

“It didn’t matter that they were terrible at being parents; they were also very rich, which meant they could pay other people to love Alec.”

“When you laugh at something, you don’t fear it anymore.”

“You have to be pretty damned hot and thirsty to enjoy a soy-milk smoothie, but they were, so it was okay.”