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

... people made the imaginary real all the time: taking the music they heard in their head and recording it, seeing a house in their imagination and building it. Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on.

Who knows what may lie around the next corner? There may be a window somewhere ahead. It may look out on a field of sunflowers.

He paused, twisting his goatee, considering the law in Deuteronomy that forbade clothes with mixed fibers. A problematic bit of Scripture. A matter that required thought. "Only the devil wants man to have a wide range of lightweight and comfortable styles to choose from," he murmured at last, trying out a new proverb. "Although there may be no forgiveness for polyester. On this one matter, Satan and the Lord are in agreement.

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

If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains.

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.