“We feel most alive when we are closest to death.”

“All statistics have outliers.”

“Nobody wants to believe that existence carries on without at least taking a stumble from their departure of this world.”

“Once a flower is picked it immediately begins to die.”

“Now she knew living was just a brief hiatus, a blip really, in the infinite line of nothingness that composed that shadowy realm of the unknown. It could stop at any time.”

“Fuck your manners.""You don't have to settle for just my manners.”

“We feel most alive when we are closest to death.”

“There is a child - a baby - who long since kicked off her blankets. Her skin is ashen and her mouth open in a perpetual yet silent scream. She isn't old enough to roll over, to sit up, to climb. So...”

“Conquest was not satisfying if it began with a surrender.”

“Reality depends a great deal upon one believing what he seesor seeing what he believes. Either way.”

“Fuck your manners.""You don't have to settle for just my manners.”

“And now I know that you're the oneI've waited my whole life forYou're budding leaves turning green in springYou're the fresh breath of air that summer bringsYou're the autumn sky painted in rainbow...”

“I do not love men: I love what devours them.”

“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”

“Part of his mind was screaming, but it was a distant one and easy to ignore.”