Do you honestly think Lenin is any different from J.P. Morgan? That you, if you were given absolute power, would behave any differently? Do you know the primary difference between men and gods?...Gods don't think they can become men.

Grief, I swear to God, doesn't live in the heart. It lives in the senses. And sometimes, all I want to do is cut off my nose so I can't smell her, hack my fingers off at the joint.

The best thing that can happen to people entering creative professions is the dwindling of all other possibilities.

Charm was the luxury of those who still believed in the essential rightness of things. In purity and picket fences.

This world can only give me reminders of what I don't have, can never have, didn't have for long enough.

In Greek tragedy, they fall from great heights. In noir, they fall from the curb.

Choice, I've always believed, is all that separates us from animals.