The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

Everyone loves something for nothing...even if it costs everything.

In the stutter-flashes of light, the clouds look like huge transparent brains filled with bad thoughts.

Stories are relics, part of an undiscovered pre-existing world.

I always drank, from when it was legal for me to drink. And there was never a time for me when the goal wasn't to get as hammered as I could possibly afford to. I never understood social drinking, that's always seemed to me like kissing your sister.

For," I said, "a murdered man or woman dies not in God's time, but in Man's. He... or she... is cut short before he... or she... can atone for sin, and so all errors must be forgiven. When you think of it that way, all murderers are a gateway for heaven.

Love isn't soft, like the poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.