“Reality is just a nice way of saying "tragedy." The truth is, people are vain and mean!”

“You say that you people don’t burn folk and sacrifice people anymore, but that’s what true faith would mean, y’see? Sacrificin’ your own life, one day at a time, to the flame, declarin’ the truth of it, workin’ for it, breathin’ the soul of it. That’s religion. Anything else is just . . . is just bein’ nice. And a way of keepin’ in touch with the neighbors.”

“People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.”

“I'm not that nice," I said. People were always telling me how nice I was. You'd think it would be a compliment, but it was amazing how sometimes it just felt like a kinder way of saying "blah." "I just keep my horrible side well hidden.”

“Reality means you live until you die...the real truth is nobody wants reality.”

“Believing the lie that time will heal all wounds is just a nice way of saying that time deadens us.”