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21 " Cops need criminals, doctors need disease, and saints need lepers. "
― Donald O'Donovan , Night Train: A Novel
22 " Nowhere do you see a real, integrated, full-blooded man or woman who shines like a beacon in this sea of disjointedness. "
23 " Dear God, please make me believe that life has some sort of meaning and purpose. "
24 " Los Angeles is a mother that devours her children. "
25 " The neon dust falls slowly, filtering through the stone canyons, settling on hats and fire hydrants, collecting on delicatessen awnings, filling the shopping carts and rickety baby carriages of the rag pickers with soft powdery snow. "
26 " I found myself thinking about Jacqueline, my second or third wife. "
27 " Los Angeles, this anthill, this slag heap, the city where I suffered and grappled with life and was defeated, and where I finally triumphed. "