"If Chester had a failing, it was that he believed people were what they thought they were."

"The cops are after me, I'm on my way to join an organization of lunatics and bombers, I'm wired for sound, my necktie…"

"Nobody gets everything in this life. You decide your priorities and you make your choices. I'd decided long ago that …"

"In order to hold your faith intact be sure it's kept unsullied by fact."

"What did Jesus Christ say to the Teamsters? 'Do nothing till I get back.'"

"Eyes wide and blank as the buttons on a first Communion coat."

"The August sun, God's blood-blister..."

"New York doesn't exactly have neighborhoods, the way most cities do. What it has is closer to distinct and separate v…"

"Brian had all that day to figure out what was going on, and yet he didn't."

"I believe my subject is bewilderment. But I could be wrong."