“Develop your pawns or Hulk will smash.”

“There were days when no kid came out of his house without looking around. The week after Halloween had a quality both hungover and ominous, the light pitched, the sky smashed against the rooftops.”

“There's never any percentage in being ahead of your time.”

“The key to mostly anything is pretending your first time *isn't*.”

“May one plead, Your Honor, postmodernism as an involuntary condition?”

“Everything funny in a not-funny-at-all kind of way. Sarcasm as something you practiced like karate. Later concealing your mute fury when nobody fed you the opening lines.”

“...Don't rupture another's illusion unless you're positive the alternative you offer is more worthwhile than that from which you're wrenching them. Interrogate your solipsism: Does it offer any better a home than the delusions you're reaching to shatter?”