Laurence felt a weird combination of shame and rage, as though he'd grown another new body part just in time to get punched in it.

When the world turns chaotic, we must be the better part of chaos.

Do you think the occasional witch burning helps to weld society together?

A society that has to burn witches to hold itself together is a society that has already failed, and just doesn't know it yet.

Why would anybody be a Satanist, anyway? I don’t get it. You can’t believe in Satan without believing in God, and then you’re just picking the wrong side in a big mythic battle thing.

Loneliness was a full-body sensation, an anti-exhilaration, from his core outward.

Love was the most susceptible to random failure of all human enterprises.

That’s the definition of evil right there: not faking it like everybody else.

What was worse, being crazy or being evil?

Self-awareness paradoxically requires an awareness of the other.

And she felt like they, the two of them, right here, right now, could make something that defied tragedy.

When anyone can still the minds of five, ten or hundred people, then work can be accomplished. Who can still the mind? It is the one whose own mind is still, he can still the minds of others.

There are more than 9,000 billing codes for individual procedures and units of care. But there is not a single billing code for patient adherence or improvement, or for helping patients stay well.

Ambition is a tunnel that you run through that doesn't end.

The most beloved manifestation of obedience to God is trust in Him

If I ever do get married," Tariq said, "they'll have to make room for three on the wedding stage. Me, the bride, and the guy holding the gun to my head

Languages proclaim that woman is half of man, and by parity of reasoning, man is half of woman.

I was born with this bow tie made of celluloid on my collar.

Dreams are constructed from the residue of yesterday.

If you're not having doubt, you're not pushing the boundaries far enough.