She'd thought love had something to do with happiness, but it turned out they were not even vaguely related. Love was closer to a need, no different from the need to eat, to breathe.

Gold don't come off. What's good stays good no matter how much of a beating it takes.

I remember an era when you could get your nose sliced off for sticking it too far into another man's business. Now you can find out anything about anyone with the click of a button. There is no privacy and no consideration, and everyone is prying into things that aren't their affair. You can probably check on the intertube and find out what color underwear I have on today.

When you think about it, most of the good ideas came along to make sin a whole lot easier.

If you didn't have me to rake you over the coals now and then, there wouldn't be any fire in your life at all.

Music [is] the third rail of life. You grabbed it to shock yourself out of the dull drag of hours. To feel something. To burn with all the emotions you didn't get to experience in the ordinary run of school, TV, and loading the dishwasher after dinner.

Terror is the desire to save your own ass, but horror is rooted in sympathy.