“I did it again. Lying guilty in a hotel room for a woman I will fail for.”

“The devil can be a clown of prizes in moments like these. Moments of knowing youve ventured too far down the wrong path and all you can do is accept more prizes ...”

“Because I keep it real and reality is a ruthless bitch. Plus I wanna make money you cool with that? - Gable”

“I always root for the black man, like penance for something I had not part in creating.”

“Sex can be used either for self-affirmation or for self-transcendence either to intensify the ego and consolidate the social persona by some kind of conspicuous embarkation and heroic conquest, or...”

“He didn't know all that much about how the machinery worked anyway. Such knowledge was for specialists. In war, as in love, he was a fearless, happy-go-lucky adventurer.”

“If she did experience sex--or something close to it--in high school, I'm sure it would have been less out of sexual desire or love than literary curiosity.”