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Insanity is not evil, but all evil is insane. Evil itself is never funny, but insanity sometimes can be. We need to laugh at the irrationality of evil, for in doing so we deny evil's power over us, diminish its influence in the world, and tarnish the allure it has for some people.

May I tell you a wonderful truth about your dog? ... You have been given stewardship of what you in your faith might call a holy soul.

I sure hope she's wrong, because one of the implications of her cosmology is that the many terrors we know here are an inoculation against worse in the world to come.

I remembered reading that the sweat and breath of certifiable psychopaths have a subtle but distinctive chemical odor because of certain physiological conditions accompanying that mental disorder. Maybe her breath smelled of craziness.

Her eyes were celadon saucers but bottomless, of such great depth that she could take in the knowledge of whole worlds and have room in that gaze for still more.

It was my first clue that atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like

The sky was black and spitting rain on my smiling face.

The peace of dead souls. Every day the world shrivels me. A world of word-twisters. Of optimists done up in tutus.

Women are odd," he said, to extricate himself. "Two or three of them have told me they're sure I modeled one of my characters on them. And they were complete strangers, women I'd had nothing to do with. What kind of delusion could that be?" "Lots of women are unhappy, so they console themselves with delusions.

The Milky Way came down just over there, to wrap the night earth in its naked embrace. There was a terrible voluptuousness about it.

Hay por aquí algún demonio intentando reírse de mi?

Un demonio vendrá a buscarte -dijo, arrimándose a la notable piel de la muchacha.

We were watching a battle, but it took clean forms.

I cannot believe homosexuality is that much fun. Heterosexuality certainly is not.

We did not desire or dread the boys in themselves, we only desired and dreaded being wanted or not being wanted.

13.5 Mrs. Wolfe asks whether Mr. Iqbal expects her Susan to undertake compulsory headstands. 13.6 Mr. Iqbal infers that, considering Susan's academic performance and weight problems, a headstand regime might be desirable.

My rage was the only thing keeping me awake, I was feeding off it in that righteous way you can if you never mention out loud the wrong you are being done.

I always tell my students: A style is a means of insisting on something. A line of Sontag's.

A carefully preserved English accent also upped the fear factor.

You don't come to live here unless the delusion of a reality shaped around your own desires isn't a strong aspect of your personality. 'A reality shaped around your own desires' — there is something sociopathic in that ambition.

But like a lot of people whose vocation it is to change the world he proved to be, in person, outrageously petty.

You're next. It's the next thing. Next stop Kilburn Station. The doors fold inwards, urban insect closing its wings.

The shit is not the shit, he repeated solemnly, the pigeon is the shit.

As long as we encourage a culture of victim hood, said Monty, with the rhythmic smoothness of self-quotation, we will continue to raise victims. And so the cycle of underachievement continues.