Steve Miller

“As a vacuum cleaner can start to pull up the actual thread of a carpet, her brains had been sucked dry by too much yoga.”
― Lorrie Moore, Birds of America: Stories

“Poor old Sheba regarded Connolly with much the same amazement and delight as you or I would a monkey who strolled out of the rain forest and asked for a gin and tonic.”
― Zoë Heller, Notes on a Scandal: What Was She Thinking?

“It is nothing, except that it is sex with a man who is not dyslexic, and once in a while, Jesus Christ, she needs that.”
― Lorrie Moore, Birds of America: Stories

“Her expression suggested the kind of deeply private, strictly incommunicable anguish of someone who has just slammed the car door on her thumb.”
― Zoë Heller, Notes on a Scandal: What Was She Thinking?