But this was not quite the right kraken apocalypse.

We should have just killed him, that's a lesson, don't get creative with revenge

My Google-fu is strong.

Just thugs only ever got so far. The best thugs were all psychologists.

Of all the skills necessary for her work, what she was perhaps worst at was being polite to inanimate things.

Dark came early and stayed full of lights and the shouts of children.

That's what gets converts these days, " Baron said. "It's a buyers' market in apocalypse. What's hot in heresy's Armageddon.

Sometimes, in the middle of the night, I’ll wake up with sweat drenching my chest and think it’s the blood and muck I was covered in that night.

Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind. When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.

Play is basic to all normal and healthy children. It provides pleasure and learning and a minimum of risks and penalties for mistakes.

Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall be gloriously surprised.

While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer - one haunted by Catholicism.

Not gifted with genius but honestly holding his experiences deep in his heart, he kept his simplicity and humanity.

Water is the mirror that has the ability to show us what we cannot see.

We're just fragile machines programmed with a false sense of our own importance. And every now and then the universe sends a reminder that we don't really matter to it.

The Christian church was born in song.

I am infected with your stupidity.