The girls you meet are never very far from their worst-case scenario.

Only in death will we have our own names since only in death are we no longer part of the effort. In death we become heroes.

The liberator who destroys my property is fighting to save my spirit. The teacher who clears all possessions from my path will set me free.

Taste is such a changing thing. Every age our tastes change. But the things that really last aren't necessarily the best or the worst or the most loved things, but they're the things that make the biggest impression.

For thousands of years, human beings had screwed up and trashed and crapped on this planet, and now history expected me to clean up after everyone. I have to wash out and flatten my soup cans. And account for every drop of used motor oil. And I have to foot the bill for nuclear waste and buried gasoline tanks and landfilled toxic sludge dumped a generation before I was born.

Folks build a reputation by attacking you while you’re alive - or praising you after you ain’t.

The evil queen was stupid to play Snow White's game. There's an age where a woman has to move on to another kind of power. Money, for example. Or a gun.