I think all true stories are hopeful stories. I don't think there's any room for nihilism.

The United States Congress, like a lot of rich people, lives in two houses.

If I could do it all over again," he said, his speech slow and vaguely mangled by his massive lower lip, "I'd just let myself be trampled to death by the Satan Pig.

He'd fought hard, Lida told me, as if there was another way to fight.

Random questions are the least random of all questions.

I always wondered if there was a purpose to the universe, if there was a plan, if there was some sort of organizing factor, hopefully that I played a role in.

The dead are visible only in the terrible lidless eye of memory.