“The Baron was good with two things: sex, and death. And what was sex anywaywhat was orgasm but what the French (those cunning linguists of the language of love) referred to as a Little Death? What ...”

“If theres anything in life thats an undisputed fact, its this: Buildings with strange symbols carved in their lintels are bad news. You rarely find symbols leading to unicorns and fields of candyan...”

“Awkward conversations. Theyre the heart of the drug trade. The driving force that keeps criminals out of jail is paranoia. You can think you know people, but the truth is, you never know who theyre...”

“So, if the zombies are coming to town, why exactly are we coming back here?Dont call them that.But they areNo, theyre not. Theyre mutants or science gone awry orsomething. Anything but zombies. How...”

“Little is known about the love lives of the undead. Really, past the brain-eating, reanimated corpse angle, not much is said for the zombies perspective. So they ate brainsbig deal! Sure, they were...”

“There are probably more of us. If were all zombies, thentheres got to be more. I say we go up to the cemetery and find out.Can we get soda on the way?Nothing washes down brains better than a can of...”

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of wi...”

“My dear,Find what you love and let it kill you.Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.Let it kill you and let it devour your remains....”

“If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?”

“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.”