“Don't you kids get any ideas about dragging a trailer into the backyard. after you graduate from high school, i don't want to see you again.”

“Mom, how come you never go outside?""I told you, I'm a vampire.”

“She has given me a way out.”

“Don't you kids get any ideas about dragging a trailer into the backyard. after you graduate from high school, i don't want to see you again.”

“I do lend my books, but I have to be a bit selective because my marginalia are so incriminating.” --Alison Bechdel”

“Psychoanalytic insight, Miller seems to suggest, is itself a pathological symptom.”

“It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!”

“Your unconscious wants to express the pain you feel about your own lost innocence. But your ego wants to keep it repressed. To the compromise is anxiety.”

“It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone.”

“How Horrid" has a slightly facetious tone that strikes me as Wildean. It appears to embrace the actual horror--puberty, public disgrace--then at the last second nimbly sidesteps it, laughing.”

“Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?”