“Man, it was a good thing vampires didn't get cancer. Lately he'd been chain-smoking like a felon.”

“You may tend to get cancer from the thing that makes you want to smoke so much, not from the smoking itself.”

“The best thing—in Shadow's opinion, perhaps the only good thing—about being in prison was a feeling of relief. The feeling that he'd plunged as low as he could plunge and he'd hit bottom. He didn't worry that the man was going to get him, because the man had got him. He was no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring, because yesterday had brought it.”

“...he assured me that God didn't make cancer because cancer is not good, and he cautioned me not to blame God for something He didn't make.”

“When he'd been small, people had said things like, "And what do you want to be, little man?" and he'd said, "I don’t know. What have you got?”

“Having an energy conversation without talking about climate is like talking about smoking and not talking about cancer.”