Black coffee’s a lot like whiskey, you know? All devil and no trimmin’s. Always liked my sins pure and take it as it comes.

pain can work form the outside in.

As though all the world were a bad joke and she was the only one around who knew the punchline.

In the basement, with Ruth, I began to learn that anger, hate, fear and loneliness are all one button awaiting the touch of just a single finger to set them blazing toward destruction.

To her eyes, used to diversity, there was a troubling uniformity about them all, something that spoke of isolation, and a dull and thoughtless cruelty.

So here my check. Overdue and overdrawn. Cash it in hell.

He had kissed her good night that night, and she had tasted like strawberry daiquiris, and he had never wanted to kiss anyone else again.

Tha know where thy are we' ferrets. Ya never know where ya are we' lasses

life is fair, truth is faith

Well there's nothing to lose And there's nothing to prove I'll be dancing with myself.

Unhappy endings can be as cheap as happy endings.

The day I retire is the day I'll feel old. I'm not there yet.

So long as I'm the president, my measure of success is victory -- and success.

I'm a color person, I've never been known to play it safe. Plus I like big bags. My eyeglasses are so big; they don't fit into smaller bags.

Does my eye look okay to you?

Sometimes you can define a composition or a couple of notes by the silence that goes around it.