What we need is not so much personal development, as personal replacement: What we need is not so much personal development, but personal substitution.

When we get hung up on the non-essentials, the essentials have no opportunity to make a significant appearance.

The Universe is always delivering to us what we need for a spiritual awakening.

There is no good or evil, there is only power and those too weak to weak it.

If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?

I never sympathise with the accused unless there's a chance the accused is not guilty, but I certainly don't ever sympathise with the criminal.

I was never a girl who dreamed about what her wedding day would be like, but I've always dreamed about decorating my baby's nursery.

You can steal my women but don't play with my whiskey.

Desperation is the secret to my steady employment. I am not interested in downtime. I really like to keep working all the time and I always feel like I'm in the mail room of life; working up.

Why isn't everything exploding?!

I can't pretend that I'm brave and that I can beat the whole world.

You're so very good at that. The temper, the scowl. You must drink shots of testosterone in your morning coffee.