“I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.”

“Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.”

“When we first broke into that forbidden box in the other dimension, we knew we had discovered something as surprising and powerful as the New World when Columbus came stumbling onto it.”

“Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.”

“They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed.”

“It's the truth, even if it didn't happen... ...if they don't exist, how can a man see them?”

“When a man showed up you didn't want to look at his face and he didn't want to look at his face and he didn't want to look at yours, because it's painful to see somebody so clear that it's l...”

“We'd just shared the last beer and slung the empty can out the window at a stop sign and were just waiting back to get the feel of the day, swimming in that kind of tasty drowsiness that com...”

“I been silent so long now it’s gonna roar out of me like floodwaters and you think the guy telling this is ranting and raving my God; you think this is too horrible to have really happened,...”