...because of the foulness of her mother's emotional river, a current which ran swift, changing its path without warning...

Sometimes milestones are not measured by the accomplishments of society, but by those of integrity.

Respect earned through fear instead of deeds, was not truly respect.

Then the Skopamish showed up. Their chests heaving, rotting eyes like dull raisins in their skulls. Their eyes found mine like a witching wand seeking water.

Somewhere deep inside, his humanity had been shaken by something so unnatural, so foreign in its essence, his very being withdrew from it...

All other goods by fortune's hand are given, A wife is the peculiar gift of Heaven.

Only after realising that routine immunisations were dangerous did I achieve a substantial drop in infant death rates.

I bet a guy at a bar 50 bucks that I was more dysfunctional than he was. He raped me. So I tipped him. I'm very competitive.

In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.

Whence do I get my rules of conduct? I find them in my heart. Whatever I feel to be good is good. Whatever I feel to be evil is evil. Conscience is the best of casuists.

I began asking, 'How can we know Christianity is true?' Sadly, none of the adults in my life offered an answer. Eventually I decided Christianity must not have any answers, and I became an agnostic.

The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.

It is better that you live in a one-room garret with a leaky roof, than live in a large house, the mortgage payments of which are causing your colon to turn cancerous!

I think it's important to vote.

We're against animal fighting and killing animals for fur.... We want Americans to eat fewer animals