And once again I found myself wondering, as I drifted off to stunned and unbelieving sleep:How do these terrible things always happen to me?.

I thought about the nice clothes that I always wore. Well of course I did. I took pride in being the best dressed monster in Dade County..

I often find myself in situations where it seems to me like everyone else has read the instruction book.

I don't know if you have noticed this, but it is quite possible for two human beings to have a conversation in which one or both parties involved has….

It was almost enough to make me feel emotion..

Life's only obligation, afterall, was to be interesting..

It was such an unexpected and genuine smile that if I only had a soul I'm sure I would have felt quite guilty..

It was clear to me that it wouldn't matter what I did - they would never truly appreciate me or learn what I had to offer. They were far beyond fickl….

No big deal. We all have blood in us, the trick is keeping it inside..

I don't do my job to catch the bad guys. Why would I want to do that? No, I do my job to make order out of chaos..

...she opened the door very slowly and carefully, half hiding behind it, as if badly frightened of what might be waiting for her on the other side. A….

Dying makes everyone weaker, subject to painful insight, and not always insight into any kind of special truth - it's just the approaching end that m….

But as I have noticed on more than one occaision, life itself is unfair, and there is no complaint department, so we might as well accept things the ….

Weren't we all crazy in our sleep? What was sleep, after all, but the process by which we dumped our insanity into a dark subconscious pit and came o….

Anybody can be charming if they don't mind faking it, saying all the stupid, obvious, nauseating things that a conscience keeps most people from sayi….

Really now: If you can't get me my newspaper on time, how can you expect me to refrain from killing people?.

Nothing in life is fair. Fair is a dirty word and I'll thank you not to use that language around me..

...being torn apart by far too many loyalties that could not possibly live together in the same brain..

We can't always do what we think we have to do. So when there's nothing else you can do, you wait... No matter what... pressure... you might feel..

She really did like me, the idiot..

I did not like this feeling of having feelings..