The town kept its secrets, and the Marsten House brooded over it like a ruined king.

“Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around.”

“hair Butch waxed so heavily that it seemed to scream up from his skull.”

“A man who can't bear to share his habits is a man who needs to quit them.”

“Chains (other than the ones we all learned to make out of strips of colored pap…”