This is an absurd moral, for you and I both know that sometimes not only is it good to lie, it is necessary to lie.

The thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it turns up. Like a tie at a tag sale, some perfect thing in a crate of nothing, you were just there, uninvited, and now suddenly the party was over and you were all I wanted. I hadn't even been looking, not for you, and now you were my heart's desire.

Either you have the feeling or you don't. Hawk Davies

You would run much slower if you were dragging something behind you, like a knapsack or a sheriff.

I don't know why wicked places generally look wicked. You'd think they'd look nice, to fool people, but they hardly ever do.

I know what is going on," said Sir. "I am the Boss! Of course I know!

After a certain age, you couldn't even say where you were from. You went someplace, and lived there. And then you went someplace else.