They understood what had really held the market together before. Violence. After all, what good was a debt if the creditor couldn't compel it to be paid?

Being alive and living aren't the same.

Amnesia was a soldier's best friend, and luckily, it could be taught. Missing limbs still ache, but missing memories never do.

Being on a lunchbox was awesome, and being on a thermos was pretty cool, too.

[When asked her occupation:] Destroyer of the works of the Devil by the direct order of God.

We cannot think without language, we cannot process experience without story.

To hear is to doubt, to see is to be deceived, but to feel is to believe.

Power for men means the ability to make things happen ... The female definition of power is the ability not to have to please.

Art thou angry with him whose armpits stink? Art thou angry with him whose mouth smells foul?

An interesting thing about book groups, it seems to me, is that there is no correlation between a brilliant book and a brilliant discussion. The first seems sometimes even to undermine the second.

Not writing would be like going the rest of your life without having dreams.

Only ambitious nonentities and hearty mediocrities exhibit their rough drafts. It's like passing around samples of sputum.

Thrust your head into the public street, to gaze on Christian fools with varnish'd faces.