“There'll be lawyers in heaven before you see somethin' so good again.”

“Let this be a lesson to us all, said the preacher. You will be walking someday in the dark and the truth will come shining through, and behind you will be a life that you never want to see again.”

“You can count the dead, but you can't count the cost. We've got no math for Heaven...”

“With all respects to heaven, I like it here.”

“...it was necessary to love silence, but before you could love silence you had to have noise.”

“People are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time- but even on the best day nobody's perfect.”

“She was tired of everyone wanting to go to heaven, nobody wanting to die. The only thing worth grieving over, she said, was that sometimes there was more beauty in this life than the world could bear.”