“There have been so many times I felt like I've ended the conversation lately I've decided that if I had a Wu Tang name it'd be Threadkilla. ”
“The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees. ”
“I've been called many things. But I suppose 'the devil' is as good a name as any.”
“I mean, I've had the name Finbar for sixteen years, and I've only been punched in the face once.”
“I've had so many bikini waxes, I cry every time I see a Popsicle stick.”
“I've shepherded a good many people through their lives, I've baptized babies by the hundred, and all that time I have felt as though a great part of life was closed to me. Your mother says I was like Abraham. But I had no old wife and no promise of a child. I was just getting by on books and baseball and fried-egg sandwiches.”