"The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof"

"The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire"

"An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself"

"I don't believe in ghosts, but I am afraid of them"

"The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts"

"Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets"

"I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work"

"There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury"

"Ghost stories really scare me. I have such a big imagination that after I watch a horror movie like 'The Grudge', I look in the corners of my room for the next two days"

"His claim to his home is deep, but there are too many ghosts. He must absorb without being absorbed"

"If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost"