I think it's relatively easy for people to accept something like telepathy or precognition or teleplasm because their willingness to believe doesn't cost them anything. It doesn't keep them awake nights. But the idea that the evil that men do lives after them is unsettling.

One of life's great truths is this: when one is about to be struck by a speeding six-hundred pound Coke machine, one need worry about little else.

Time continued to pass - the oldest trick in the world, and maybe the only one that really is magic.

When you put on a clown suit and a rubber nose, nobody has any idea what you look like inside.

In polite society, we call our obsessions hobbies.

Just the act of cooking made her feel better, because cooking was life.

Do you know how cruel your God can be, David. How fantastically cruel?...Sometimes he makes us live.