For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering

I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.

The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.

But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I imagine. What interests me is being a man.

And indeed it could be said that once the faintest stirring of hope became possible, the dominion of plague was ended.

Do you believe in God, doctor?"No - but what does that really mean? I'm fumbling in the dark, struggling to make something out. But I've long ceased finding that original.

We refuse to despair of mankind. Without having the unreasonable ambition to save men, we still want to serve them.

But memory is less disposed to compromise

It is in the thick of a calamity that one gets hardened to the truth, in other words to silence.

Why, because an author has more rights than ordinary people, as everybody knows. People will stand much more from him.

Real transformation requires real honesty. If you want to move forward — get real with yourself!

Friendship between two women is always a plot against another one.

I think it's a big disservice to our country and to our democracy to continue to raise these doubts.

The heart of Christ can be seen through the openings of his wounds. For what can prove to me so clearly as your wounds that you, O Lord Jesus, are sweet & mild & plenteous in mercy.

And always embrace things, people earth sky stars, as I do, freely and with the appropriate sense of space.

Learning is the gradual replacement of fantasy with fact.

I know many crooks and they never preach, but I don't know anyone who preaches that isn't a crook also.

There should be a vaccine against Adam Black. And all women should be given it at birth.

His eyes were green chips of flame, and the growl was so thick it blurred the air around him, the sound of a very pissed off skinchanger.

All of us make mistakes. The key is to acknowledge them, learn, and move on. The real sin is ignoring mistakes, or worse, seeking to hide them.