Every marriage has two hearts, one light and one dark

About halfway through I broke down crying, which I hadn't expected. I was a little ashamed, but only a little;it was her, you see, and she never taxed me with the times that I slipped from the way I thought a man should be...the way I thought I should be, at any rate. A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures, and one without must be among the most miserable, I think, the only true blessing of their lives that they don't know how poorly off they are.

Everything's a lot tougher when it's for real. That's when you choke. When it's for real.

On the subject of love at first sight, I’m with the Beatles: I believe that it happens all the time.

Lovecraft opened the way for me, as he had done for others before me

When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, 'Why god? Why me?' and the thundering voice of God answered, 'There's just something about you that pisses me off.'

I've given up thinking - it keeps getting me into trouble.