“True deduction can only be obtained through a certain amount of self annihilation.”

“I discovered Emerson's soporific qualities by falling asleep with my face in the book, drooling all over an essay called 'Self-Reliance'...”

“Sometimes you just need to go through a door.”

“We were like astronauts floating through a starless universe.”

“Hell had been his Vietnam. It had stamped its mark on him for all eternity, and no amount of denial or self-imposed ignorance was going to change it. Ever.”

“And that is how someone who is unusally susceptible to nightmares, night terrors, the Creeps, the Willies and the Seeing Things That Aren't Really There talks himself into making one last trip to the abandoned, almost-certainly-haunted house where a dozen or more children met their untimely end.”

“I slammed out of the [house] and started walking, heading nowhere in particular. Sometimes you just need to go through a door.”