I guess Satan was the first superhero [...] In his first adventure, he took the form of a snake to free two prisoners being held naked in a Third World jungle prison by an all-powerful megalomaniac. At the same time, he broadened their diet and introduced them to their own sexuality.

If you didn't have me to rake you over the coals now and then, there wouldn't be any fire in your life at all.

All the world is made of music. We are all strings on a lyre. We resonate. We sing together.

I want you to remember what was good in me, not what was most awful. The people you love should be allowed to keep their worst to themselves.

You can't let facts get in the way of the truth.

The mad sometimes drilled holes in their own heads to let the demons out. To relieve the pressure of thoughts they could no longer bear. Jude understood the impulse. Each beat of his heart was a fresh and staggering blow felt in the nerves behind his eyes and in his temples. Punishing evidence of life.

You'll have pie in the sky when you die.