Sooner or later a black car came for everyone.

Love requires Context.

You know someone for a while and then one day a hole opens underneath them, and they fall out of your world.

Taking a thing apart is always faster than putting something together. This is true of everything except marriage.

She liked things that had been written by people who had lived short, ugly, and tragic lives. Or, who at least, were English.

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.

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