"Marketing is finding women who like sex or would like to find out if they do. Sales is convincing them that they want…"

"It was on one of those terrible, fever-clouded days when the serpent beneath southern California awoke. It stretched …"

"The price of chemical ecstasy was a dear one, paid in flesh and spirit."

"“Chicken?” “Don’t want my feathers ruffled, it that’s what you mean.”"

"And your life is ruined because you tried to do the Right Thing. Join the club honey—guess what, there are a few more…"

"I’m damned tired of being needed. Being needed is just the flip side of being royally screwed."

"“You know, it isn’t that you can’t get information in electronic form, or microfilm, or disk, or cube, or any of the …"

"Hate comes from the past, fear from the future. Pain and pleasure are now, and therefore their own trap."

"“Don’t be afraid of dying. A Warrior lives with death, Aubry. Welcome it as an ally. All other fears are just fragmen…"

"The world doesn’t give a damn what we feel or want. Only what we are, and what we do."