Painted faces laughed. It was like a mad carnival where everyone was oblivious, lost in the bliss of chaos, a throng unaware of a bomb planted beneath thefloorboards.

You're a dream. Like everything else.

Death always wins.

You yourself could be nothing more than a shadow, someone else’s dream who is, themselves, someone else’s.

The more this guy talked, the more he sounded like a fortune cookie.

She never answered. She couldn’t. All she could do was stare, reaching toward him with her gaze alone, pulling him to drown in the sorrow of those depthless black pools.

Just because I wear black and keep a private journal, that doesn't mean I'm going to blow up the school. Or terrorize mindless cheerleaders, for that matter.

We can all share with Nora and then she will have breakfast too!

Pandora's Box could not be unopened, no one could return to Eden.

A falcon who chases a warlike crane can only hope for a life of pain.

If I stop pushing you, if I stop demanding of you, if I stop getting on you, then I probably don't think you have much to offer.

In New York, one must collapse to be indolent.

You kissed me because you were awfully nice and I was awfully nice and we both liked kissing very much. It was inevitable.

Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron.

A cardinal American virtue, 'ambition,' promotes a cardinal American vice, 'deviant behavior.

Getting up at three in the morning to watch Michael Jordan, I never dreamed one day I would be kissing that trophy.

Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes. Not through mere perversity do men run after it.