The opportunity to love a dog and to treat it with kindness is an opportunity for a lost and selfish heart to be redeemed. They are powerless and innocent, and it is how we treat the humblest among us that surely determines the fate of our souls

The less depth a belief system has, the greater the fervency with which its adherents embrace it. The most vociferous, the most fanatical are those whose cobbled faith is founded on the shakiest grounds.

No degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity.

Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.

In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings.

Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror.

She'd been acutely aware that terror, betrayal, and cruelty had a human face, but she had not sufficiently appreciated that courage, kindness, and love had a human face as well.