What was worse, being crazy or being evil?

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.

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.

When there are many worldsyou can choose the oneyou walk into each day.

Life is to short to worry about everything.

Tomorrow looked a lot better yesterday

There's always hope. Never give up. Walk slowly and drink lots of water. It ain't a sprint.

Drag a $100 bill through a trailer camp and there's no telling what you will find.

My goal isn't to make money, it's to try and survive and make a point.

When the truly great people discover that they have been deceived by the signposts along the road of life, they just shift gears and keep going.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

There was no one around called 'Val' when I was young, so I wanted to be John or Bill. Now I like it.

Let go into the mystery Let yourself go You've got to open up your heart That's all I know Trust what I say and do what you're told Baby, and all your dirt will turn Into gold.