“The boy had the towering arrogance only seen in the greatest of artists and all nine-year-old boys.”

“I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating.”

“Nobody's seen Jesus in years.”

“There was a tale he had read once, long ago, as a small boy: the story of a traveler who had slipped down a cliff, with man-eating tigers above him and a lethal fall below him, who managed to stop his fall halfway down the side of the cliff, holding on for dear life. There was a clump of strawberries beside him, and certain death above him and below. What should he do? went the question. And the reply was, Eat the strawberries.The story had never made sense to him as a boy. It did now.”

“Gee-word?""Gods. What were you doin' the day they handed out brains, boy, anyway?""Someone was telling a story about stealing a tiger's balls, and I had to stop and find out how it ended.”

“The joy's gone out of me like the pee from a small boy in a swimming pool on a hot day.”

“If a Devil is one who dares, when others hold back, then I am happy to play the Devil in this Mystery, boy.”