Her audacity turned him on. There was nobody quite so arousing, he decided, as a worthy opponent. - James Morrow

What enormous potential for intermittent happiness the world offered.

You wouldn’t like him. Major fanatic. Confuses migraine headaches with God.

Which alternative is worse, I wonder?" she said. "To deny death and thus risk never being wholly alive, or to face oblivion squarely and risk paralysis by dread?"
"Nobody knows," I said. "It's ambiguous."
"If I ever get to be God," she said, unleashing the grin of the person who'd invented Largesse, "my first act will be to make ambiguity illegal.