There will be justice," said Brutha. "If there is no justice, there is nothing.

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

Whatever you choose, your choice will mean there are two new worlds. And perhaps sometimes, on the edge of sleep, we will see the shadow of the other world. There will be no unhappy memories.

Just because something is a metaphor doesn't mean it can't be real.

This wasn't food - it was what food became if it had been good and gone to food heaven.

I never said nothing..." "I know you never! I could hear you not saying anything! You've got the loudest silences I ever did hear from anyone who wasn't dead!

There isn't a way things should be. There's just what happens, and what we do.