Ask for an omen, then stone it when it comes -- de essentia hominum.

One should be embarrassed to speak of God in the third person.

Bless me Father, I ate a lizard.

I'm not so sure he's mad, Father. Just a little devious in his sanity.

....to abuse the intellect for reasons of pride, vanity, or escape from responsibility, is the fruit of that same tree.

But neither infinite power nor infinite wisdom could bestow godhood upon men. For that there would have to be infinite love as well.

Listen, my dear Cors, why don't you forgive God for allowing pain? If He didn't allow it, human courage, bravery, nobility, and self-sacrifice would all be meaningless things.

That's where all of us are standing now, he thought. On the fat kindling of past sins.

Soon the sun will set'- is that prophecy? No, it's merely an assertion of faith in the consistency of events.

When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs the deathlike peace of the life-weary.

Because a doubt is not a denial. Doubt is a powerful tool, and it should be applied to history.

a human body has a machine which he uses, so learn more about how this machine works to get the best result .

In books, as in life, there are no second chances. On second thought: it's the next work, still to be written, that offers the second chance.

I'm gluten intolerant, so that automatically cuts carbs from my diet.

My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.

In the meantime, I would drink, rest, and ponder the meaning of this mob.

God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.

You were there all day long, 12 hours a day. So there was none of this, 'I'm going back to my trailer, my trailer's bigger than your trailer,' that kind of Hollywood nonsense.

When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone

Mere abuse is no criticism.

He that loveth maketh his own the grandeur he loves