You must not make the mistake of thinking that because nothing lasts, nothing matters. - Robert Charles Wilson

I suppose the pursuit of fashion has always carried a price, monetary or otherwise.

A man who submits himself wholeheartedly to God might handle them and not be harmed. That was the faith my father had professed. Certainly he trusted God, in his own case, and believed God manifested Himself in the rolled eyes of his congregants and in their babble of incomprehensible tongues. Trust and be saved, was his philosophy. And yet in the end it was the snakes that killed him. I wondered which element of the calculation had ultimately failed him—human faith or divine patience.

Baumgartner's coke habit isn't the secret she thinks it is, and it gives us leverage."
"Coke?"
"Coke, yeah, you know: cocaine. When she powders her nose, she literally powders her nose.