“Besides the pain in my gut, why shouldn't I laugh? I've almost escaped death in a foreign country.”

“I think that Richard was more of a one-girl-for-the-rest-of-your-life-marry-and-make-a-family kind of guy.”

“There has to be at least one other reason besides money that makes you do the things that you do.”

“There's no need to blame fate or destiny for a stupid decision.”

“Your imagination and some masturbation is a much better alternative to finding out what kind of person a bit of casual sex transforms you into.”

“The day, like all good days, passed far too quickly.”

“He was attractive. I knew that. And I knew that attractive people always got away with things.”

“Thats the attractive thing about war, said Rosewater. Absolutely everybody gets a little something.”

“They have a special confidence in Christ, plus thoughtfulness plus faithfulness plus humility: for there are no things, in all creation, more beautiful, more rare than the so very disciplined and f...”

“I think that Richard was more of a one-girl-for-the-rest-of-your-life-marry-and-make-a-family kind of guy.”

“And like tea dissolving in hot water, the sun dissolved in the sky creating a velvet horizon, announcing for the stars night dance with the moon, the awaited joy for the wounded souls. -- From Bali...”

“There has to be at least one other reason besides money that makes you do the things that you do.”

“Jesus Christ, it's like living with Stevie bloody Nicks,' I said, 'only without the cocaine, which would be more fun.”

“There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol."..."There was a thing called the soul and a thing called immortality."..."But they used to take ...”

“Happiness is my drug of choice.”