“Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.”
“The person healed has an obligation to then ask why— to meditate on God's will, and the extraordinary lengths to which God has gone to realize His will.”
“The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting.”
“Dead was the gift that kept on giving. Dead, likediamonds, was forever.”
“everyone is dead and this is hell.”
“I don't believe in any actual thinking God that marks the fall of every bird in Australia or every bug in India, a God that records all of our sins in a big golden book and judges us when we die - I don't want to believe in a God who would deliberately create bad people and then deliberately send them to roast in a hell He created-but I believe there has to be something”