If you're going into a dark place... you should take a bright light, and shine it on everything. If you don't want to see, why in God's name would you dare the dark at all?

“norris didn't cry, but he was apt to puke on them, the way he had puked on home…”

“It was really amazing the number of hard hits from which a mind could recover.”

“What if there were no grownups? Suppose the whole idea of grownups was an illus…”

“He was in that mostly empty-headed state of grace which is sometimes such ferti…”