“It'll be your damnation, boy. You'll wear out a hundred pairs of boots on your way to hell.”

“Wear it home. It'll look like a dress.”

“Angels may be safe from damnation, but human beings are less fortunate things, and for them hell is always close”

“She ran out of her marriage the way a woman can run out of a pair of sandals when she decides to let go and really dash.”

“If it's ka it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone”

“He knew as well as we in our own world do that the road to hell is paved with good intentions--but he also knew that, for human beings, good intentions are sometimes all there are. Angels may be safe from damnation, but human beings are less fortunate things, and for them hell is always close.”

“In many ways, Eulah-Beulah prepared me for literary criticism. After having a two-hundred-pound babysitter fart on your face and yell Pow!, The Village Voice holds few terrors.”