She had such unusual eyes. They made me think of the seaside, and so I called her Ocean, and could not have told you why.

Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.

I have always felt that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the last sanctuary of the terminally inept.

I could be blindfolded and dropped into the deepest ocean and I would know where to find you. I could be buried a hundred miles underground and I would know where you are.

Hey, that's life, flick it off if you can't take a joke.

The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.

Nice' in a bodyguard is about as useful as the ability to regurgitate whole lobsters.