Reassurance is such a sad, mad thing. Deep inside, everyone knows the truth..

Most true things are kind of corny, don’t you think? But we make them more sophisticated out of sheer embarrassment..

Watch your step. Keep your wits about you; you will need them..

Of course I know that the twins are only words on a page, and I'm certainly not the sort of writer who talks to his characters or harbours any illusi….

You want Paradise, you gotta build it on war, on blood, on envy and naked greed..

But miracles are not for the asking; they come only when the stern eyes of God droop shut for a moment, and Our Lady takes advantage of His inattenti….

Clothes are nothing more than a fig leaf. And the bodies beneath are just another layer of clothing, an outfit of flesh with an impractically thin le….

History indulges strange whims in the way it dresses its women..

I am a fallen woman, but I assure you: I did not fall. I was pushed..

A single day spent doing things which fail to nourish the soul is a day stolen, mutilated, and discarded in the gutter of destiny..

Nowadays, her life is more like a newspaper: aimless, up-to-date and full of meaningless events.

And you know what people immediately start looking for, five minutes after they arrive someplace new? You know what's on their minds? I'll tell you: ….

The world changes too fast. You take your eyes off something that's always been there, and the next minute it's just a memory..

Participating in Society in not a thing one can do naturally; one has to rehearse for it..

Most distracting of all, though, was not the threat of danger but the allure of beauty..