I know I can do it," Todd Downey said, helping himself to another ear of corn from the steaming bowl. "I'm sure that in time her death will be a mystery, even to me.

You pay for what you get, you own what you pay for... and sooner or later whatever you own comes back home to you.

The shuddering would not stop. The pain was like the end of the world. He thought: There comes a point when the very discussion of pain becomes redundant. No one knows there is pain the size of this in the world. No one. It is like being possessed by demons.

Good luck is just bad luck with its hair combed.

No one ever really pays for betrayal in silver....The price of any betrayal always comes due in flesh.

I love music, and I can play a little. But anyone can see the difference between someone who's talented and someone that's not.

We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except through faith.