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

“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.”

“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.”

“But Maine is a special place: there's something about untold acres of natural beauty in concert with an underachieving public school system that leads to deviations from the customary and commonsensical.”

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