Aren't you going to tell me I'm not so bad? she asked. Mmm-no. I was thinking how every man loves a hot girl with a history of making mistakes. Because it's always possible she'll make one with you.

Horror was rooted in sympathy . . . in understanding what it would be like to suffer the worst.

Pick a sin we can both live with, is what I ask.

When you think about it, most of the good ideas came along to make sin a whole lot easier.

I am; I was. I want to be.

God saves - but not now, and not here. His salvation is on layaway. Like all grifters, He asks you to pay now and take it on faith that you will receive later. Whereas women offer a different sort of salvation, more immediate and fulfilling. They don't put off their love for a distant, ill-defined eternity but make a gift of it in the here and now, frequently to those who deserve it least. So it was in my case. So it is for many. The devil and woman have been allies against God from the beginning.

Terror is the desire to save your own ass, but horror is rooted in sympathy.