What it takes to survive out here is order, I realize and say to myself, ‘Divide the day into equal periods. See this travel alarm? You get up, don your uniform, move according to the bell.’

You know, up until later on today, I never really knew how to drink.

Something else that makes me angry is that I got too old to prostitute myself. I wasn't going to anyway but it was there, it was my Z plan.

You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search.

One must always be careful of books, " said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.

I didn't grow up in a Norman Rockwell house... my house was more akin to Norman Lear.

Black is bountiful. White is witful. Both are beautiful.

Tears filled Claire’s eyes but, as if they knew their place, didn’t leave.

It was how it had been with the madman among the tombs, that their number was legion, far in excess at any rate if the number listed on the back of the door as the room's maximum occupancy.

All men are brothers, like the seas throughout the world; So why do winds and waves clash so fiercely everywhere?

How is it appropriate for a judge ever to say that they will choose to see some facts and not others?

A priestess of Avalon does not lie. But I am cast out of Avalon, and for this, and unless it is all to be for nothing, I must lie, and lie well and quickly

You were worth it, old friend, and a thousand times over.