I always felt that organized religion was just basically a theological insurance scam where they're saying if you spend time with us, guess what, you're going to live forever, you're going to go to some other plain where you're going to be so happy, you'll just be happy all the time, which is also kind of a scary idea to me.

Ka was a wheel; it was also a net from which none ever escaped.

Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That's what makes them children.

Kill you all!" The clown was laughing and screaming. "Try to stop me and I'll kill you all! Drive you crazy and then kill you all! You can't stop me!

Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses.

We're all going to die; I'm just trying to make it a little more interesting.

Definition of a wanderer: a guy who's always looking beyond.