High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.

Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.

Everything truly important is washable.

Mistakes wreck your life. But they make what you have. It's kind of all one. You know what Hester told me when we were working the sheep one time? She said it's no good to complain about your flock, because it's the put-together of all your past choices.

A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.

Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.

I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book.