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

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.

The difference between childhood and adulthood, Vic had come to believe, was the difference between imagination and resignation. You traded one for the other and lost your way.

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

He understood that the ghost existed first and foremost within his own head. That maybe ghosts always haunted minds, not places. If he wanted to take a shot at it, he’d have to turn the barrel against his own temple.

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

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.