We sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things we fear in our real lives.

For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand.

The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want for nothing. He makes me lie down in the green pastures. He greases up my head with oil. He gives me kung-fu in the face of my enemies. Amen

As a species we're fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start dreaming up reasons to kill one another. Why do you think we invented politics and religion?

Mister, we deal in lead.

If God gives you something you can do, why in God's name wouldn't you do it?

She had never dreamed there could be so much pain in a life when there was nothing physically wrong. She hurt all the time.