“There's no such thing as writer's block. That was invented by people in California who couldn't write.”

“Look, this is just the cemetery. It's got bylaws and things! It's not Transylvania! There's just dead people here! That doesn't make it scary, does it? Dead people are people who were living once! You wouldn't be so worked up if there were living people buried here, would you?”

“When people say "clearly" something that means there's a huge crack in their argument and they know things aren't clear at all.”

“Time was something that largely happened to other people; he viewed it in the same way that people on the shore viewed the sea. It was big and it was out there, and sometimes it was an invigorating thing to dip a toe into, but you couldn't live in it all the time. Besides, it always made his skin wrinkle.”

“People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.”

“If there's one thing that really annoys a god, it's not knowing something.”

“And if you couldn't trust the government, who could you trust? Very nearly everyone, come to think of it...”