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And into its bland merciless face what did he have to show as his proof that he deserved to live?
- Nothing but that he was afraid to die.

Sooner or later everyone is defeated by their desires.

Little girls think their fathers will save them. Women know better.

After puberty, you look to one sex for more than friendship and to the other for less-than-complete intimacy.

It was always the most striking scene, the best work, the most disturbing emotion and unsettling idea that attracts criticism.

Nothing on earth is more vicious than a disappointed American public.

There's nothing that makes an artist more beloved than the audience pitying him because his work comes at a price they would never pay.

Had any parent ever succeeded in hiding marital unhappiness from their child?

The world is chock-full of monsters.

Percocet? Seriously?" Brian laughed bitterly. "That's so nineties. He should at least update his addictions.

Re: Central Park
But the height proved the awesome truth that the park was made by man: nature re-created where it had been killed.

Maybe becoming a monster is a sign of strength.

Oh God, I'm old and I've never been young.

Also, serial killers, child killers, they're hot, they're the new cool kids, the new vampires, the new zombies, everybody's favourite spook monster.

You could become anyone, including your real self.

To me, people's lives and loves are entwined with their characters, natures and circumstances. I regard all general advice with skepticism.

For a while she had a vague longing to be a psychologist. "Talking therapy is dead," Gary said when she raised the idea. "It's all pills now.

Something about Christmas decorations inspired delinquency.

Jeff had learned the wisdom of perversity and made his lonely secret into art.

Gary was a righteous man, frank about his lusts, and they were the lusts of the righteous: for sugar and fat and the succour of a wife.

You have to feed the press or they'll eat you.

People don't so much believe in God as that they choose not to believe in nothing.

How far we've come, Jeff," Brian whispered to the cold, wet streets. "How far the geeky boys have come.

The most fun thing about being a writer is that everything is interesting.