“Sometimes God dillies and dallies, and sometimes he just points at you and tells you to hang up your jock.”

“Sometimes God dillies and dallies,’ Steve said, ‘and sometimes he just points at you and tells you to hang up your jock.”

“Then, instead of telling her that where there was life there was hope, or to let a smile be her umbrella, or that it was always darkest just before the dawn, or anything else that had just lately fallen out of the dog's ass, she simply held her. Because sometimes only holding was best. That was one of the things she had taught that man whose last name she had taken for her own--that sometimes it was best to be quiet; sometimes it was best to just shut your everlasting mouth and hang on, hang on, hang on.”

“God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.”

“Sometimes stories cry out to be told in such loud voices that you write them just to shut them up.”

“Keeping up the fiction. You have to keep it up, sometimes, no matter how you feel.”

“You don't always talk with your mouth. Sometimes what you say with your mouth hardly matters at all. You have to signify”