The mountebank told them that God was surely trying to kill them, possibly because He was through with them, and that they should have the good manners to die. This, as you can see, they did.

The Bible may be the Greatest Story Ever Told, but the most popular story you can ever tell is about a good-looking couple having a really swell time copulating outside wedlock, and having to quit for one reason or another while doing it is still a novelty.

God Almighty Himself must have been hilarious when human beings so mingled iron and water and fire as to make a railroad train!

Just because something feels better than anything else, that doesn't mean it's good for you.

Dwayne's bad chemicals made him take a loaded thirty-eight caliber revolver from under his pillow and stick it in his mouth. This was a tool whose only purpose was to make holes in human beings.

What had made me move through so many dead and pointless years was curiosity.

He did not think of himself as a writer for the simple reason that the world had never allowed him to think of himself in this way.