The more we know about the former world, the better we’ll understand what happened when it fell.

If nothing else, it's pleasant to consider the possibility. He likes the thought of ships moving over the water, toward another world just out of sight.

Adulthood’s full of ghosts... High-functioning sleepwalkers, essentially.

The beauty of this world where almost everyone was gone. If hell is other people, what is a world with almost no people in it?

Are you asking if I believe in ghosts?""I don't know. Maybe. Yes.""Of course not. Imagine how many there'd be.""Yes, " Kirsten said, "that's exactly it.

The king stood in a pool of blue light, unmoored.

If I replace the word God with the word nature, I am far more at ease with the whole religious enterprise.

The law is not designed to make us honorable, only bearable.

I really love showing up at work at 10 A.M., trying to make it funny until 3 P.M., and then going home. It's like comedy bankers' hours.

A ship without Marines is like a garment without buttons.

The 2016 presidential campaign is heating up. Can you feel the indifference, the apathy?

Christianity is not a message which has to be believed, but an experience of faith that becomes a message.

New Zealand looks like the future to me

I think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn't have been seen.

The past doesn't just disappear after it's happened.