The devil is a cross between a really good used-car salesman and a game-show host, but with a lot more style and charm.There's a little Cary Grant thrown in there too.

With some hard work I'm sure you'll be able to walk again.

I'm a big fan of all the great movie devils, from Walter Huston to Ray Walston to Al Pacino to Jack Nicholson.

The whole thing was the precise opposite of what I figured it would be: slow and patient and quiet and neither particularly painful nor particularly ecstatic

Death is easier to bear without thinking of it, than the thought of death without peril.

My view is that you never argue with the customer about your name.

Life swarms with innocent monsters.

I'm just trying to get back to normal life.

I write because it's a way of presenting something without having to be there.

Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

Which is worse, Risa often wondered, to have tens of thousands of babies that no one wanted or to silently make then go away before they were even born

I don't think there's anything to be desired in a bunch of people chasing you around, trying to get a piece of your clothing.

There is always something else to do. A gardener should have nine times as many lives as a cat.