A cat won't curry favor even if it's in their best interests to do so. A cat can't be a hypocrite. If more preachers were like cats, this would be a more religious country.

we need ghost stories because we, in fact, are the ghosts.

there's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.

It hurts to imagine stuff. It can give you a headache. Probably doesn't hurt physically, but it hurts mentally. But the more that you can do it, the more you're able to get out of it. Everybody has that capacity, but I don't think everyone develops it.

Once, during the drinking phase, Wendy had accused him of desiring his own destruction but not possessing the necessary moral fiber to support a full-blown deathwish. So he manufactured ways in which other people could do it, lopping a piece at a time off himself and their family.

Sooner or later everything you thought you'd left behind comes around again. For good or ill, it comes around again.

A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures.