And blue-lung'd combers lumbered to the kill.

Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free.

Human tragedies:We all want to be extraordinaryand we all just want to fit in.Unfortunately, extraordinary people rarely fit in.

Coincidence is God's way of staying anonymous.

I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast.

You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate.

Let me revel in this one thought: before God made the heavens and the earth, He set His love upon me.

The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

Don't permit fear of failure to prevent effort.

...there's no reason why scholarship can't be as seriously playful as bubble-blowing.

Those who endlessly praise the rank of martyrdom must first attain that rank! No invented rank is superior to the life! You stick to the life and let the fools stick to the death!