Sarcastic people tend to be marshmallows underneath the armor

Memories are contrary things; if you quit chasing them and turn your back, they often return on their own.

The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window.

Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.

Listening to it was like having a mud-slimed piece of silk drawn lightly back and forth across her face.

I hardly ever read mainstream fiction that deals with life as it is. I like an element of fantasy, something that isn`t quite of the real world.

Too often, in novels that are speculative, God is a kind of kryptonite, and that's about all that it is, and it goes back to Dracula, where someone dumps a crucifix in Count Dracula's face, and he pulls away and runs back into his house. That's not religion. That's some kind of juju, like a talisman.