“When I was seven I believed in God so I told Him I was sorry about kicking my sister and to please not condemn me to eternal suffering in the interminable fires of Perdition for my transgressions.”

“So ask me if I am alright.'Im fine; Im always fine.'You see this look in my eyes.'No, Im fine. I am always fine.'There is a corpse behind my smile.'Listen, I am fine. Always, always fine as fine ca...”

“The Girl does not dream. The Girl has never dreamed.”

“But she's not.' I told the man, 'Look at you! You're a vampire giving up beating hearts in favor of the woman you love. That's pretty-''Embarrassing?' he finished for me with a frown.I narrowed my ...”

“And from the top of the building I look down upon the world and see the crowds of people in the city I have made and the world that I have created.This universe, my universe, dies with me. I will j...”

“You're insane.' The officer says, shaking his head, 'What about the Bible? What about the Good Word?''Oh, that's all made up, ain't it?' She tells him with a shrug, 'I ain't done most of the stuff ...”

“Ya got cigarettes? she asks. Yes, I say,I got cigarettes. Matches? she asks.Enough to burn Rome. Whiskey?Enough whiskey for a Mississippi River of pain. You drunk? Not yet.”

“For one more time, he decided to give away smoking.And then, she happened one more time in his head.”

“Interesting" people were her favorite hobby. She collected them: the type who did gay things late at night and smoked cigarettes in mixed company, those would have most scandalized her own mother.”

“In this state, the club was The Wizard of Oz made obvious: All the magic that went on here night after night, all the buzz and excitement, was really just a combination of electronics, booze, and c...”

“There are many men in London, you know, who, some from shyness, some from misanthropy, have no wish for the company of their fellows. Yet they are not averse to comfortable chairs and the latest pe...”

“The ideal committee is one with me as chairman and two other members in bed with flu.”