“Things seem to be returning to normal, he thought, but couldn’t stop himself from laughing out loud when he realized he was crawling through a secret passage dirt tunnel toward a drainage pipe where an army of rats awaited to accompany him home. Normal indeed.”

“Yes, it's true. Immaculate conception exists. I am the second coming of Christ. I have no father.”

“Normal! He thought. Normal! I don't want things to be normal. Normal is always being left out, never belonging.”

“Even though he was afraid to admit it, when he was with her it seemed it was worth doing all those normal things that normal people do.”

“Look in his eyes. He has died a thousand times these last moments...You defeated him utterly the moment you saw fear in his eyes. All else is redundancy.”

“People keep asking me, "Where do you get the ideas for your books?"From the worst moments in my life.I call that "literature through disaster." I got the whole Tales from Earth's End Saga that way, as well as Numenon. Don't be afraid of the hard times.”

“A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.”