“For a time I hovered in that peaceful dreamland where nothing at all works properly but everything is okay.”

“Stunned by love and some would say stupid from too much sex, I decided I had to drive down south to kill a man.”

“I looked up fairness in the dictionary and it was not there.”

“I'm a whole lot of God-help-us is what I am.”

“Be sweet to one another. Stay in this beauty and brawl against the world's power of pulling apart. Recall Old Testament terminology: covenant, sacred, sacrifice. And mind always that Adam wasn’t a schlep fruitily duped by Eve. He turned his back on God because he knew that a paradise without her was no paradise at all.”

“Insecure or homicidal: the adjectives don't bother me one bit.”

“Please quiet your strange self lest harm come to you.”