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

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.

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.

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.

You have the chief spark of your health's fire, for you have true knowledge of the hand that guides the universe.

It’s human nature to find patterns where there are none and to find skill where luck is a more likely explanation.

I don't follow precedent I establish it.

You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.

When I was so fatigued that I couldn't move, the excitement of going to the barn and getting my foot in the stirrup would make me crawl out of bed.

There are more people living in Lower Manhattan now than before the terrorist attacks. That's faith for you. There's such a strong spirit here.

If you eat well, you can transform your life.

I have invested some money and I have a home, but people don't realise that you might only be working for a few weeks of the year and remain unemployed the rest of the time.

Manipulating people, that's what I'm good at

Plot is a literary convention. Story is a force of nature.