[S]he was in a pretty crazy place, screaming and waving the bucket-knife around, spattered with blood from head to toe. Lee was lying on the floor, quietly pumping out his life through his throat.

People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they'll spend all day telling you who they are.

The most fundamental thing about a person is desire. It defines them. Tell me what a person wants, truly wants, and I'll tell you who they are, and how to persuade them.

It was always this way: The more people talked, the more they obscured. You didn't need to argue for the truth. You could see it.

Well, I like to know where I'm going before I try to get there. It's a mistake to try to execute a plan before you've thought of one, in my experience.

Within perfect walls there is nothing worth protecting. There is, in fact, nothing. And so we exchange privacy for intimacy.

'Your brain doesn't process language quite like other people. Why that is, I have no idea.' 'I have a superior brain?' 'Uh, ' Eliot said, 'I wouldn't go that far.'

Wil ate without enthusiasm. His bacon tasted like nothing. Like a dead animal, fried. His eggs, aborted chickens.

Raven scowled through his too-long bangs. “The Angel Song doesn’t hurt humans. It only affects the evil within.” “Then you should be writhing on the ground with the hounds, ” Mace mumbled.

God has provided food for every bird, but He doesn't throw it in their nests

I never draw blood on a first date.

I'd say many features of string theory don't mesh with what we observe in everyday life.

How slow life is, how violent hope is.

Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.

You might be a redneck if your grandmother can correctly execute the sleeper hold.

I'm in the moment. I'm always in the moment of life.

My gayness became quietly accepted and, shock of all shocks, life went on.

The feminazis celebrated Bill [Clinton], all because he was able to just manhandle us.