Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.

These stories are ghosts, bringing people back from the dead. Just for a moment. For a visit. Every story is a ghost.

Katherine Kenton remains among the generation of women who feel that the most sincere form of flattery is the male erection.

Here in your mind you have complete privacy. Here there's no difference between what is and what could be.

The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly. The farther you run, the more God wants you back.

"This isn’t really death," Tyler says, "We’ll be legend. We won’t grow old." I tongue the barrel into my cheek and say, Tyler, you’re thinking of vampires.

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.