Money’s the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters – a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.
I go where the lizards tell me.
Junkies might be easy to knock down, but they’re never fragile. They have souls like old leather shoes studded with steel, and they’re about as much good as friends.
We needed to become world-famous soon, while there was still that kind of world to be famous in...
Around the outskirts of the city, cut off from town by the black oval of the river, everything was in darkness. Everyone ugly was in bed by now.
Tally, do you ever suffer from sudden flashes of anger or euphoria, countersocial impulses, or feelings of superiority?
The very idea of making shoes by hand boggled her mind.
I love my virginity to the apocalypse.
Out here, you find out that the city fools you about how things really work.
Frighteningly Beautiful, Dangerously Strong, Breathtakingly Fast. Face it Tally-wa you’re special...
I’m not against thinking; I’m only against thinking that thinking on its own will get you out of a hole. Shovel also needed.
Maybe kissing is sort of like nature’s coffee. -Jonathan.
Apparently textbooks were an endangered species here in Bixby, Oklahoma.
Two weeks of killer sunburn is worth a lifetime of being gorgeous.
I like my first lines short and declarative. No complicated sentences. Of course, that’s not really a Scott thing. It’s pretty classic grab-the-reader technique.
I’ve learned a lot about stage-managing for illustration. Sometimes you have to delete characters from a scene just to keep from overcrowding the image. I’ve also learned to making big-scale design decisions early.
And here in America rival newspapermen attack each other on sight?
I wouldn’t say design has become strictly functional. A lot of cars these days look downright comic book to me, and the info-gadgets with which late industrial people spend the most time – phones, music players, etc. – are blobjects.
That was the whole point of being special: You existed to make sure everyone else behaved, but that didn’t mean YOU had to.
You young things are too easily persuaded by the touch of lips.