“Good things come to those who wait, but shit pretty much shows up right away, doesn't it?”

“A hotel mini bar allows you to see what a can of Pepsi will cost in twenty years.”

“There is a cop who is both prowler and father:he comes from your block, grew up with your brothers,had certain ideals.”

“People were made up of shit and piss and phlegm and bits and pieces of experience.”

“There are two types of people in the world. There are the people who understand instinctively that the story of The Flood and the story of The Tower of Babel are the same thing, and those who don't.”

“God: Check out this human I designed.Angel: Wow, that looks pretty incredible. How does it work?God: It's pretty complicated. Point to something and I'll tell you what it does.Angel: Okay. What are these?God: Teeth. They're for chewing up food.Angel: How come there are so many of them?God: I threw in, like, three or four extra. If they don't like them, they can pll them out somehow, I guess.Angel: What about this weird bag thing?God: That's the appendix.Angel: What does it do?God: It explodes.Angel: Really? That's all?God: Pretty much.Angel: What causes that to happen?God: It just happens randomly. Like you'll just be walking down the street or driving a car and boom.Angel: Geez...that's terrifying. Does it kill the person?God: (shrugs) Sometimes.”

“That's why I want to speak to you now.To say: no person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity, should have to be so alone. There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep, and still be counted as warriors. (I make up this strange, angry packet for you, threaded with love.)I think you thought there was no such place for you, and perhaps there was none then, and perhaps there is none now; but we will have to make it, we who want an end to suffering, who want to change the laws of history, if we are not to give ourselves away.”