That was one thing you found out when you were stoned, or wasted, or feverish: that the world was always turning and that only a healthy mind could block out the sickening whirl of it.

Were talking about an attitude. Delayed gratification is there, planning, be able to give up something now to get something later.

Horror was rooted in sympathy . . . in understanding what it would be like to suffer the worst.

If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains.

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

Taking a thing apart is always faster than putting something together. This is true of everything except marriage.

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.