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?

“Beware of good taste.”
― Duncan Hannah, 20th Century Boy: Notebooks of the Seventies

“Lonely people are terrible snobs about one another, I’ve found. They’re afraid that consorting with their own kind will compound their freakishness.”
― Zoë Heller, Notes on a Scandal: What Was She Thinking?