“I've been to Hell. You've only read about it.”

“Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.”

“Are your convictions so fragile that mine cannot stand in opposition to them? Is your God so illusory that the presence of my Devil reveals his insufficiency?”

“If I wasn't such a bad woman on the page, I couldn't be such a good woman in life.”

“The only thing my mother told me about sex was that I was never going to get any.”

“Life is like a movie, if you've sat through more than half of it and it’s sucked every second so far, it probably isn't going to get great right at the end and make it all worthwhile. None should blame you for walking out early.”

“Reading, as it turned out, is the easy part. Finding a good book is the real challenge. It's a crapshoot. It's like trying to pick stocks or find an intelligent politician.”