"He had an air of magnificent melancholy sophistication, as if his proper place were elsewhere, somewhere infinitely more compelling, and he'd been confined to his present setting by a grotesque divine oversight, which he tolerated with as much good humor as could be expected."
"Most people are blind to magic. They move through a blank and empty world. They're bored with their lives, and there's nothing they can do about it. They're eaten alive by longing, and they're dead before they die."
"The Universe saw a need and filled it. Saw an imbalance and stabilized it. The Universe was good at that. Unless you wanted to get laid ... then you were on your own."
"People, my mama had once said, will be idiots. Not can be or might be, but will be. Sooner or later, every person alive will be an idiot about one thing or another."