You know, the condom is the glass slipper of our generation. You slip it on when you meet a stranger. You dance all night, then you throw it away.

A hotel, he told me, was a big house where a lot of people lived and ate and slept, but no one knew each other. He said that described most families in the outside world.

To merely observe your culture without contributing to it seems very close to existing as a ghost.

You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth.

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.

Everyone wants to be tested and challenged. Everyone would like a good, honest fight to exhaust their frustrations.

It takes a lot to get people talking in airplanes. But once they start talking, you just can't shut them up.