“Wherever you go in the galaxy, you can find a food business, a house-building business, a war business, a peace business, a governing business, and so forth. And, of course, a God business, which is called 'religion,' and which is a particularly reprehensible line of endeavor. ”
“- "What is reality?"- "One of the many possible illusions.”
“Pour la carotte, le lapin est la parfaite incarnation du Mal.”
“The minutes dragged by, and a hush fell over the village. This was the time Azzie loved best, the minutes approaching midnight, when the complexition of the world changed, when the sanctities of evening are forgotten, and the saving grace of dawn was still far away. It was in these hours, between midnight and dawn, that evil always felt most at peace with itself, most experimental, most in need of strangeness and sin, most in need of producing the ever-pervading perversions which needed constant renewal, and the doing of which was a delight to the evil soul.”
“Honey, that man would do anything to keep you. Lie, steal, cheat, kill, clean up after himself, and do laundry.”
“A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.”