After all, addiction is just the last stage of consumerism.

Needing something is not the same thing as being interested in the thing itself.

When all the details fit in perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story.

The twentieth century has built up a powerful set of intellectual shortcuts and devices that help us defend ourselves against moments when clouds suddenly appear to think.

There is such a thing as the poetry of a mistake, and when you say, "Mistakes were made, " you deprive an action of its poetry, and you sound like a weasel.

So what did you do, drug me, stuff me in the trunk, then dump me like a sacrificial offering into that vampire’s coffin? - Shella

I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance.

Psychopaths know intellectually what is immoral they just don't have a feeling of immorality about it.

To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life's salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that's vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!

I cannot kill him, she muttered to herself. I cannot kill him. I promised Bianka I'd stop at ten bodies a day, and I've already surpassed my quota for the fifth day in a row. I cannot kill him.

Be kind to the living.

I've done everything I can as a United States Senator to educate myself on the carbon issue and the climate change issue.

Being a soldier, fighting for this country, is neither Republican nor Democrat.

Let him be wise, or let me be blind; don't let me, she hoped concretely, don't let me know too surely what he thinks of me.

I was dreaming ... about my grandfather. A very old man, at least as old as I am now, 91. I thought, when I was a boy, that he had been 91 all his life. Now I feel as if I have been 91 all my life.