Everybody falls, and we all land somewhere.

I suppose the pursuit of fashion has always carried a price, monetary or otherwise.

Personally, I don't believe in anything more supernatural than what you read about in the Bible, and I only believe that one day out of seven.

Nobody wants to conduct an autopsy on a dead saint.

Consciousness," according to current scientific thought, was something the higher mammals had evolved in order to help them reproduce, much the way a garden slug secretes slime. It had no special ontological status. The "self" was a genetically modulated and biologically useful illusion.

Goddamn you," Jacob said. "There's no damnation, Jacob. No Heaven but the forest and no God but the hive.

Stupid people do stupid things, but people who are smart enough can do something really stupid.