“More often than not, if a person is wearing a smile, there is a victim attached somewhere.”

“Where's the fun in playing with knives if you can't draw a little blood?”

“Cats are the ultimate narcissists. You can tell this by all the time they spend on personal grooming. Dogs aren't like this. A dog's idea of personal grooming is to roll in a dead fish.”

“In 1803, President Jefferson oversaw the purchase of this land from the French for $15 million. It doesn't sound like much for an area three times the size of France itself but given that they'd stolen it from the Native Americans in the first place, I suppose they couldn't grumble. Once some debts had been wiped and estate agents had taken their commission, Napoleon's France ended up pocketing a little more than $8 million. Which is about how much it cost Pepsi Cola to secure the services of Britney Spears. Times have changed.”

“...it is often more difficult to remember to be mindful than to be mindful itself. (p. 47)”

“More often than we care to admit, inconsequential decisions change our lives.”

“David Goodis didn’t write novels, he wrote suicide notes.”