Joe Hill

“It was something... the way a person's life picked up speed, the way a life was like a bullet aimed at one final target, impossible to slow or turn aside, and like the bullet, you were ignorant of what you were going to hit, would never know anything except the rush and the impact.”

“The language of sin was universal, the original Esperanto.”

“I liked AC/DC," Lee said. "If you were going to shoot someone, you'd really want to do it while you were listening to them.""What about the Beatles? Did you feel like shooting anyone listening to them?"Lee considered seriously for a moment, then said, "Myself."At the same time he was laughing, Ig was distressed. Not liking the Beatles was almost as bad as not knowing about them at all.”

“Don't ever have children, Tyler, unless you're ready to be afraid everyday for the rest of your life.”

“Don't waste time mourning. Organize”

“Horror was rooted in sympathy . . . in understanding what it would be like to suffer the worst.”

“The mad sometimes drilled holes in their own heads to let the demons out. To relieve the pressure of thoughts they could no longer bear. Jude understood the impulse. Each beat of his heart was a fresh and staggering blow felt in the nerves behind his eyes and in his temples. Punishing evidence of life.”

“I didn't know the inner me was hungry," I said to Art. "That's because it already starved to death. ”

“Who knows what may lie around the next corner? There may be a window somewhere ahead. It may look out on a field of sunflowers.”

“Taking a thing apart is always faster than putting something together. This is true of everything except marriage.”