There's nothing else as pleasant as being unpleasant when there's nothing else to do, and there's usually nothing else to do.

So, that’s what they wanted: lies. Beautiful lies. That’s what they needed. People were fools. It was going to be easy for me.

agony sometimes changes form but it never ceases for anybody.

The human body is mostly blood and mystery and sadness.

people are not good to each other. perhaps if they were our deaths would not be so sad.

News travels fast in places where nothing much ever happens.

It's better to do a dull thing with style than a dangerous thing without it.