Lilly was not crazy. She left a serious suicide note. 'Sorry,' said the note. 'Just not big enough.

This is what self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends.

If you asked me one day, I might say, "Well, sometimes I feel a little bit religious." If you asked me another day, I'd just say flat out, "No."

It doesn't really matter who said it - it's so obviously true. Before you can write anything, you have to notice something.

Kids are beautiful, man. And they know much more than grownups think they know. Kids are just perfect people until grownups get their hands on them.

No one could have fathomed what a life he'd led, for it was chiefly a life lived in his mind.

She was an expert at the art of sudden appearance.