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

There's something in us that is very much attracted to madness. Everyone who looks off the edge of a tall building has felt at least a faint, morbid urge to jump. And anyone who has ever put a loaded pistol up to his head... All right, my point is this: even the most well-adjusted person is holding onto his or her sanity by a greased rope. I really believe that. The rationality circuits are shoddily built into the human animal.

All you imagined, no matter how wild it might seem, was no more than a disguised version of what you already knew.

No one can be as intellectually slothful as a really smart person

You can see the goldenrod, that most tenacious and pernicious and beauteous of all New England flora, bowing away from the wind like a great and silent congregation.

Nothing is ever lost, Sarah. Nothing that can't be found.

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.