...then he looked at my T-shirt and saw Byron's picture on it and he quoted "She Walks in Beauty," which is like my favorite poem next to the one by Baudelaire about his girlfriend being nothing but worm food, except that Lily called that one first because Baudelaire is her fave poet and so she got the shirt with him on it, even though Byron is way more scrumptious and I would do him on sharp gravel if I had the chance. --from The Chronicles of Abby Normal

We know there's going to be nothing but pain, but we go back again and again.

It's wildly irritating to have invented something as revolutionary as sarcasm, only to have it abused by amateurs.

Love needs room to grow. Like a rose. Or a tumor.

Love: the sickest of Irony’s sick jokes. The place where logic and order go to die.

Shoes off in the whale! And don't try and make a break for the anus.

Not unlike the toaster, I control darkness.