He had discovered that people who allow themselves to be blown about by the winds of emotion and impulse are always unhappy people.

...morbidly, attracted him to strangeness, to recklessnesss, even unhappiness.

It's funny, he said, have you ever thought that a girl's clothes cost more than the girl inside them?

I've been so ridiculous all my life that a little bit more or a little bit less hardly matters now.

And what does anyone know about traitors, or why Judas did what he did?

When he talked his eyes went away from mine and then he forced himself to look straight at me and he began to explain and I knew that he felt very strange with me and that he hated me, and it was funny sitting there and talking like that, knowing he hated me.

Today I must be very careful, today I have left my armor at home.