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"This bag of bones must go eventually. Besides, this dying thing. Well, it's perfectly safe."
"What does it feel like?" I asked.
"Death? It's like a big piece of ice melting."

"I was nearly sixty before I saw that the parts of me I had tried so hard to get rid of were not sins, but part of the human condition."

"Sue said I was mocking the whole notion of God, but I wasn't. I was simply trying to imagine that there was a different God than the one I was raised with."

"The walnut represents the meaty, rich love of God." He turned to me and said, "What if you crack it open and it is rotten inside?"

"For if anyone could ward off Satan, it would be my mother."

“The medical establishment is the only place where you get nervous when you get excellent service.”

“The curse I would try to outrun for the next 30 years, because you don’t quit that religion. Catholicism is like the Hotel California—you can check out, but you can never leave.”