Survival," I said softly. "It's selfish, and it's dark, and we've always been a species willing to do anything to satisfy our needs. Individuals have morals. Mobs have appetites.

What was your name again?" "Still Eve." "No, I'm sure it's something else. That doesn't seem right.

It's not your enemies who are likeliest to hurt you. It is, always, those you trust.

You'd be surprised what people will do for money that they wouldn't do for love. Myrnin.

I think so,” she [Claire] said. “Just watch your back, okay?” “Nah, Michael’s got mine.” He [Shane] looked straight into her eyes. “I’ve got yours.

Promise me, Amelie, that you’ll crucify me with silver before you allow me to fall in love.” “I hardly think there’s any chance of that,” Amelie said. "I doubt you have the capacity.

Myrnin to Claire: "If anyone comes to bite you while I'm gone - well, try not to attract attention. Die quietly.

I'm worried he's going to ... do something crazy." "He lives in a hole in the ground, dresses funny, and occasionally eats his assistants," Eve said. "Define crazy.

Morely: You're trying to make me [i]Amelie[/i] Oliver: Goodness, no. You'd look terrible in a skirt

See?" she heard Shane yell at the kitchen. "She doesn't stomp around like a cattle stampede!" "Bite me, Collins! No bacon for you, either!

Shane talking to Claire - "In this whole screwed up town, you're the only thing that's always been right to me," He whispered. "I love you, Claire

Communism is Christianity castrated by Ockham's Razor.

Most people have the wrong idea about me because I've been very private.

The only thing that I'm obsessed with is sleeping, and actually, it is more than an obsession, it is a pleasure.

Why do I always feel like you're trying to staple my umbilical cord to the corner of your desk?

Slavery ended and left its false images of black people intact

We do not manufacture wants for goods we do not produce.

After you have the basics down it's all mental.

In the poor we meet Jesus in his most distressing disguises.

My son's an idiot. His teacher asked him to spell Mississippi. He asked which one? The river or the state?

I want to feel all my feelings, to have every feeling a person can have and never not feel it.