Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life--and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.

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

He once told me that an August evening was "as hot as three toads in a Cuisinart," a comparison that left me blinking two days later.

Imagine that you are more than nothing. Evil made you, but you are no more evil than a child unborn. If you want, if you seek, if you hope, who is to say that your hope might not be answered?

I would not cry. I do not cry. How bitter do you risk becoming by swallowing too many tears?

Some lives, conducted with grace, are beautiful arcs bridging this world to eternity.

Then what are you? An electronic Hannibal Lector? You can't eat my liver with fava beans through a modem, you know.