Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.

Gratitude’s got a short half-life, Clarice.

You would think such a day would tremble to begin . . .

Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.

There is a common emotion we all recognize and have not yet named -- the happy anticipation of being able to feel contempt.

I collect church collapses, recreationally. Did you see the recent one in Sicily? Marvelous! The facade fell on sixty-five grandmothers at a special mass. Was that evil? If so, who did it? If he's up there, he just loves it, Officer Starling. Typhoid and swans - it all comes from the same place.

I have no interest in understanding sheep, only eating them.