Junkies might be easy to knock down, but they're never fragile. They have souls like old leather shoes studded with steel, and they're about as much good as friends.

The world needed more fireworks- especially now that there was going to be a shortage of beautiful, useless things.

What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.

My name is tally youngblood and my mind is very ugly

Tally smiled. At least she was causing trouble to the end. "I'm Tally Youngblood," she said. "make me pretty.

I'm Tally Youngblood. Make me pretty." -Tally Youngblood

Shay sometimes talked in a mysterious way, like she was quoting the lyrics of some band no one else listened to.

I don't want to hurt you but I will if I have too - Tally Youngblood

However stupid the choice seemed, Shay had made it with her eyes open, and had respected Tally's choice to stay.

The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.

A rousing tale of techno-geek rebellion, as necessary and dangerous as file sharing, free speech, and bottled water on a plane.

Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.

However British you may be, I am more British still.

I do not improvise in heels.

There has never been a philosophy, a theory or a doctrine, that attacked (or 'limited') reason, which did not preach submission to the power of some authority.

Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.

I love old gardens best- tired old garden that rest in the sun.

You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.

Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing.

I think fashion is like putting on armor. I like that aspect of it, but it's not something I want to think about every day.

The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.