…there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.

Is it a democratic society that condemns people to the accident of conception? What are we-monkeys? If you expect people to be responsible for their children, you have to give them the right to choose whether or not to have children. What are you people thinking of? You're not only crazy! You're ogres!

The lie, of course, is more interesting.

...every study of the gods, of everyone's gods, is a revelation of vengeance towards the innocent.

Everyone has a right to be a little happy, asshole.

When I finally write the first sentence, I want to know everything that happens, so that I am not inventing the story as I write it - rather, I am remembering a story that has already happened.

I do know where I'm going and it's just a matter of finding the language to get there.