Living did not mean one joy piled upon another. It was merely the hope for less pain...

Surely that was why faith had been invented: to raise teenagers without dying. Although of course it was also why death was invented: to escape teenagers altogether.

She hated money! though she knew it was like blood and you needed it. Still, it was also like blood in that she often couldn't stand the sight of it.

So much urgent and lifelike love went rumbling around underground and died there, never got expressed at all, so let some errant inconvenient attraction have its way. There was so little time

Every family is a family of alligators.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

It's your destiny to be here, Dana.""Oh really. How nice. Is it Brandon's destiny to be here too?""Yep.

While aloofness might fascinate others and makes them respect you, it will never allow for intimacy and profound relationships.

Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; by settling down in some dirty, little, self-repeating circle of ideas; by being tamed.

I'm an expert. I can kill anybody and not be caught.

Weather patterns over the next 20 or 30 years are going to be determined by the amount of CO2 that is up there now

I design differently because I am Patrick Kelly, and Patrick Kelly is black

The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

I actually feel, in a lot of ways, that I'm in better shape than I was when I was 30.

To my daughter I will say, ‘when the men come, set yourself on fire.’