“I pull my power more tightly around me like a magic binky.”

“I was deep in the poo poo dungeon.”

“I was swimming with the turd sharks in an ocean made of piss”

“To Hades with you, fool, for God hath tired of you.”

“God, in his wisdom, sent us his angels, to whisper our names on the wind. God, in his anger, released his devils, to pester our souls to the end.”

“She came right up to me and put her snow-white hand on my arm. "You poor boy," she murmured, "you poor boy." I'm not a boy, and I'm not poor, and I wished the hell she would get away. She has a clever face, but I felt in it, that night, the force of a great sadness and great malice. "I see a rope around your neck," she said sadly.”

“I don't like to see all my energies, all of my youth, wasted in fur coats and radios and slipcovers.”