Patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings.

I don't think I've ever been an agnostic. I've always thought there's a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there's a world to come.

People's lives are filled with vice and the trappings of it. Ambition, greed and selfishness all have to do with vice. Sooner or later, you have to see through it or you don't survive.

Little red wagon, little red bike, I ain’t no monkey but I know what I like.

I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.

Like the lion tears the flesh off a man, so can a woman who passes herself off as a male.

My guard stood hard when abstract threats, too noble to neglect, deceived me into thinking, I had something to protect.