What a blessed if painful thing, this business of being alive.

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.

She just knew that even when you had nothing, you still had love.

I will be waiting by candlelight in our tree house of the mind.

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

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.

What a blessed if painful thing, this business of being alive.