Better the devils you know than the one you don't.

There is nothing more important than your eternal salvation.

Consciousness is the materia poetica that Shakespeare sculpts as Michelangelo sculpts marble. We feel the consciousness of Hamlet or Iago, and our own consciousness strangely expands.

there is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change.

Life is just a plain bloody mess, that's all. And people are fools.

Persecution shows who is a hireling, and who a true pastor.

Everybody get drunk and make bad decisions.

In the land of God's and Monsters, I was an angel looking to get f-ked hard.

Better to be the architect of something you can endorse than the placard waving protagonist standing in the rain.

We expect too much at Christmas. It's got to be magical. It's got to go right. Feasting. Fun. The perfect present. All that anticipation. Take it easy. Love's the thing. The rest is tinsel.

You will die not because you're ill, but because you're alive.