Sam Thatcher

“I will give you intelligence," submitted the Creator, "enough knowledge to destroy everything on earth, but you will have to use it."
"Done!" said our ancestor and that was our Genesis.”
― Joseph Heller, Closing Time

“I had long since managed a degree of detachment when dealing with photographs from homicide cases. They no longer upset me as they once did, although I make it a point not to dwell on them. By the time I stood in Shirley Lewis’s office, I had seen thousands of body pictures. I had seen pictures of Kathy Devine and Brenda Baker in Thurston County, but that was months before it was known there was a “Ted.” Of course, there were no bodies to photograph in the other Washington cases, and I had had no access to Colorado or Utah pictures. Now, I was staring down at huge color photographs of the damage done to girls young enough to be my daughters—at pictures of damage alleged to be the handiwork of a man I thought I knew. That man who only minutes before had smiled the same old grin at me, and shrugged as if to say, “I have no part of this.” It hit me with a terrible sickening wave. I ran to the ladies’ room and threw up.”
― Ann Rule, The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story

“When I learned you were sick , I finally felt old for the first time. You will recover, and I never will.”
― Joseph Heller, Closing Time

“I think, if you touch me, your hand might fall off or something. Worse things have happened to people who have touched me.”
― Tony Kushner, Angels in America