“There will always be something to ruin our lives. It all depends on what or which finds us first. You’re always ripe and ready to be taken.”

“there is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy”

“But my whole life has been a matter of fighting for one simple hour to do what I want to do. There was always something getting in the way of my getting to myself.”

“Why did I come here? I thought. Why is it always only a matter of choosing between something bad and something worse?”

“I was getting depressed. My life wasn't going anywhere. I needed something, the flashing of lights, glamour, some damn thing. And here I was, talking to the dead. I finished my first drink. The second was ready.”

“We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”

“Are you becoming what you've always hated?”