Here's what I suggest," he said. "You pretend that rats can think, and I'll promise to pretend that humans can think, too.

Tʜᴇʀᴇ's ɴᴏ ᴊᴜsᴛɪᴄᴇ, ᴛʜᴇʀᴇ's ᴊᴜsᴛ ᴍᴇ. —Death

Raise the stakes! Always push your luck because no one else would push it for you.

People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.

Before you can kill a demon, you have to be able to say it's name. Names have power. While the word Alzheimer's terrorizes us, it has power over us. When we are prepared to discuss it aloud, we might have power over it. It's thought of as a mental illness and it is a physical illness, affecting the brain. There should be no shame in having it, yet people still don't talk about it

Shoes, men, coffins; never accept the first one you see.

The trouble with thinking was that, once you started, you went on doing it.