Does your license plate mean something?" Bing asked. "En-o-ESS-four-a-two?"" Nosferatu," the man Charlie Manx said." Nosfer-what-who?" Manx said, "It is one of my little jokes. My first wife once accused me of being a Nosferatu. She did not use that exact word, but close enough.

— Joe Hill

Don't ever have children, Tyler, unless you're ready to be afraid every day for the rest of your life.

— Joe Hill

Eighteen and stupid happens to everyone, I guess. If you survive it, it's probably half luck, and half having the right people in your life to watch out for you.

— Joe Hill

Everyone lives in two worlds,” Maggie said, speaking in an absentminded sort of way while she studied her letters. “There’s the real world, with all its annoying facts and rules. In the real world, there are things that are true and things that aren’t. Mostly the real world s-s-s-such-sucks. But everyone also lives in the world inside their own head. An Inkscape, a world of thought. In a world made of thought—in an Inkscape—every idea is a fact. Emotions are as real as gravity. Dreams are as powerful as history. Creative people, like writers, and Henry Rollins, spend a lot of their time hanging out in their thought world. S-s-strong creatives, though, can use a knife to cut the stitches between the two worlds, can bring them together. Your bike. My tiles. Those are our knives.

— Joe Hill

Everything that is good in the day is even better in the night.

— Joe Hill

Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on.

— Joe Hill

Fear does not incline people to be moderate in their use of extreme tactics.

— Joe Hill

For a time he read his Neil Diamond bible by the firelight. He paused, twisting nervously at his goatee, considering the law in Deuteronomy that forbade clothes with mixed fibers. A problematic bit of Scripture. A matter that required thought." Only the devil wants man to have a wide range of lightweight and comfortable styles to choose from," he murmured at last, trying out a new proverb. "Although there may be no forgiveness for polyester. On this matter, Satan and the Lord are in agreement.

— Joe Hill

God saves - but not now, and not here. His salvation is on layaway. Like all grifters, He asks you to pay now and take it on faith that you will receive later. Whereas women offer a different sort of salvation, more immediate and fulfilling. They don't put off their love for a distant, ill-defined eternity but make a gift of it in the here and now, frequently to those who deserve it least. So it was in my case. So it is for many. The devil and woman have been allies against God from the beginning...

— Joe Hill

Gold don't come off. What's good stays good no matter how much of a beating it takes.

— Joe Hill