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The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility.… —T. S. Eliot, East Coker

We're all bisexual, don't you think? I have the urge for a man, sometimes, and with some of them I've indulged it. It's all sensation. Just sensation.

I don't allow flying nuns in my convent," she said. "They tend to be frivolous, and during night flight, they're prone to crashing through windows.

Flying across the faces of the buildings, the shadows resemble dragons, as if Texas has gone Tolkien.

Fear for your life sharpens your edge. Dread dulls it, think of the creep instead, stopping him.

I have found that those who worship the devil tend to be sneaky, more deceitful by far than your average Methodist—and proud of it.

THE HIGH MOON A SILVER coin in the sequined purse of the night

If these people harbored secrets that might destroy them, inviting strangers to stay in Roseland was self-destructive.

The doll twitched. Its head turned slightly toward Tommy. Its green eye fixed on him.

There is no other rational response but happiness. Despair is a foolish squandering of precious time.

Rupert Clockenwall seemed to have been too bland a soul to come back from the grave on a haunt.

Amalia insisted he wasn't cold, but only wounded by life and emotionally isolated.

In those days, cigarette companies could still advertise on television, but lawyers couldn't; some changes are for the better, and others are not.

And bring her around to bear witness to my beautiful exploded cow and the villainy it represents.

guilt is deserved only when the effort to resist evil is never made.

That's really specific, ma'am. For a prediction, I mean. It's not a prediction. It's not? Then what is it? It's what is.

they'll have to endure a lot of bad publicity, public scorn.

He lived in this resplendent house with his fiancée, Paloma Pascal

You shouldn't have a fox," the stranger says. "A fox isn't a pet.

Isn't he sweet? But he's not a fox. He's an Australian cattle dog mix.

she shoots down a megadollar drone that's government property

Well, if my father comes down out of the stars, I hope he was Luke Skywalker rather than Jabba the Hutt.

because the truth of the sender's motives

with decades of sunshine stored in his deeply tanned face.