“I've had Good and I've had Bad, and the worst I had was Wonderful!”

“I had never seen her this way before, and I wondered why until I realized it was the tattoo; I saw, finally, there was magic at work here that was darker and deeper than I had imagined, that the tattoo was like putting a pair of spectacles on a child with poor vision. I stared up at the camp hill, my heart in my throat, and wondered what everything would look like, now that I could see.”

“I am not the kind of person I would ever go to bed with.”

“Sex isn't what I'm after. Sex is just what I can get.”

“God break me out of this stiff life I've made”

“Poor boys are easier than middle-class or rich ones. Boys who've been busted are easier than boys who have not. Southern boys are easier than Northern boys. Marines are easier than Masturbation.”

“What's the use of being sexually liberated, if no one else wants you?”