“Perfume companies ought to bottle the smell of crisp bacon. Forget pheromones. Ill bet a woman with a little spot of bacon grease behind her ears would attract every male within a five-mile radius.”

“They keep track of time. Sometimes things happen and you feel that you need to mark them down.”

“Does religious conviction provide a powerful reason for killing? Undeniably it often does. It also often provides the sole compelling reason for refusing to kill, or for being merciful, or for seek...”

“the past only had whatever power you gave it; life was what you made it and if you wanted something different from what you had, it was up to you to make it happen.”