I'm not senile," I snapped. "If I burn the house down it will be on purpose.

Human understanding is fallible, and we see through a glass, darkly. Any religion is a shadow of God. But the shadows of God are not God.

We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.

You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense.

It made him feel invisible—not that he wanted to feel anything else.

Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.

When demons are required someone will always be found to supply the part, and whether you step forward or are pushed is all the same in the end.