Sooner or later even the most ambitious glutton must crawl away and seek the solace of the vomitorium.

Did I say that she was beautiful? I was wrong. Beauty is too tame a notion; it evokes only faces in magazines. A lovely eloquence, a calming symmetry; none of that describes this woman’s face. So perhaps I should assume I cannot do it justice with words. Suffice it to say that it would break your heart to see her; and it would mend what was broken in the same moment; and you would be twice what you’d been before.

I don't like PG-13 horror movies. I think they're a contradiction in terms.

Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red.

Funny that. We live in islands of Hours and we never seem to have time enough for anything.

I can see in your eyes that there’s no seam of untapped joy left in you. The best of life has come and gone. Those days when sudden epiphanies swept over you, and you had visions of the rightness of all things and of your place amongst them; they’re history. You’re in a darker place now.

any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.