“Anything pretty,' Claire will tell you, 'it's only for sale because no one wants it.”

“You realize that people take drugs because it's the only real personal adventure left to them in their time-constrained, law-and-order, property-lined world. It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.”

“It's only after you have lost everything that you are free to do anything.”

“The things you own end up owning you. It's only after you lose everything that you're free to do anything.”

“If you look at old pictures, Irene Casey is so pretty. Not just young, but pretty the way you look when your face goes smooth, the skin around your eyes and lips relaxed, the pretty you only look when you love the person taking the picture.”

“It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.”

“It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.”