Which would be worse - to live as a monster, or to die as a good man?

Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It's a shallow dependence on the exterior self, on how one looks instead of what one is. I know this well... Vanity and dishonesty may be vices, but they're also the first forms of protection I ever knew.

What's your name?" "Emma Gould," she said. "What's yours?" "Wanted." "By all the girls or just the law?

I love television. I think we're in a renaissance of epic proportion in television now.

Grief, he said, is carnivorous.

Everyone sees different things.

Catch me on a good day, I think half of my books aren't too bad. Catch me on a bad day, I think I've never written a good line.