“Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy.”

“Clothing is dishonesty in its purest form.”

“We have pain and hate and love and joy and war in the world because we want them.”

“Ev­ery phone call I get fills me with joy and ter­ror since this could be the case­work­er or the killer.”

“Katherine Kenton remains among the generation of women who feel that the most sincere form of flattery is the male erection.”

“There's a terrible dark joy when the only person who knows all your secrets is finally dead.”

“The old rule about how a thing of beauty is a joy forever, in my experience, even the most beauteous thing is only a joy for about three hours, tops. After that, she'll want to tell you all about her childhood traumas. Part of meeting these jail girls is it's so sweet to look at your watch and know she'll be behind bars in half an hour.”