I like to think Im a pretty good-natured guy and pretty civil and probably not ever truly guilty in any serious way of any legal infractions.

Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history.

The answer of course, is that the clock isn't meant to measure earthly time, but the time of the soul. Redemption and condemnation time. For the soul, each instant is always a minute short of judgment.

The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance; some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase.

Not an ugly color, Nanny thought. Just not a human color.

People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.

Even God used silence as a strategy.