Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when if feels like all you're managing is to shovel shit from a sitting position.

Everyone— black as well as white— thinks it's going to be better over the next jump of land.

But there are weak men who can lift cars if their wives are pinned underneath. The brain, Garraty.' McVries's voice had dropped to a hoarse whisper. 'It isn’t man or God. It’s something...In the brain.

His name is Legion. He is the king of nowhere.

The most classic horror tale of this latter type is the Old Testament story of Job, who becomes human Astro-Turf in a kind of spiritual Superbowl between God and Satan.

... When editors were flattered, they would sometimes give in on some of their mad ideas.