AS FOR LIVING, WE SHALL HAVE OUR SERVANTS DO THAT FOR US

"I would never take a man's name. I knew that, in the deepest part of me, even though I suspected that women who did take their husbands' names understood something about marriage that I didn't. Me? I would never even let a man drive."

"Like everyone, Robert would have loved to have attended his own funeral. Of course, one did always attend one's own funeral. But usually one was so deep in the role of the dead person that one didn't get to pay attention to the nice things people were standing up and saying about you."

- A gate at the stairs, Lorrie Moore