Some guys-a lot of guys-don't believe what they are seeing, especially if it gets in the way of what they want to eat or drink or believe. Me, I don't believe in God. But if i saw him, I would. I wouldn't just go around saying, "Jesus, that was a great special effect." The definition of an asshole is a guy who doesn't believe what he's seeing.

No one ever really pays for betrayal in silver....The price of any betrayal always comes due in flesh.

But see that you get on. That's your job in this hard world, to keep your love alive and see that you get on, no matter what. Pull your act together and just go on.

God and the afterlife and all that is certainly a subject that's interested me, and I think it interests me more the older that I get.

Your pimples are the Lord's way of chastising you. Now eat your pie.

A short story is a different thing all together - a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger.

I believe that the combination of pencil and memory creates a kind of practical magic, and magic is dangerous.