Hell was not perfect, but it was paradise compared with New Jersey. - James Morrow

Origen cut off his own balls," Martin informed Randall.
"Prostate cancer?"
"Faith.

In fact, there's probably only one thing worse than not being able to understand a person."
"What's that?" asked Nimrod.
"Being able to understand him completely.

As a race of scientists and thinkers," she concluded, "we cannot claim with absolute certainty that Teot Yon's personality is now beyond Heaven's gates or inside Satan's stewpot or about to enter the embryo of a bull. Some of us subscribe to the Afterworld Hypothesis, some to less cheerful views. We all know that as an empirical event Teot Yon's existence is over, and it is time for his molecules to become air and ash and after that—where will his drifting pieces go and what new things will they help to form? Let the transformation begin!