I am the chosen of the Lord, for who He loveth, so doeth He chastiseth. But I be durn if He dont take some curious ways to show it, seems like.

People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.

I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.

Yet the motion of the saw has not faltered, as though it and the arm functioned in a tranquil conviction that rain was an illusion of the mind.

It's like it ain't so much what a fellow does, but it's the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it.

It's like there was a fellow in every man that's done a-past the sanity or the insanity, that watches the sane and the insane doings of that man with the same horror and the same astonishment.

... a man aint so different from a horse or a mule, come long come short, except a mule or a horse has got a little more sense.

How you see the world will define you.

The changes that take place when liberal Democrats replace not so liberal or compassionate Republicans (or Democrats) are merely cosmetic.

Many people with a wild desire to act prove failures on the stage, their inclinations are greater than their powers. Rarely is it the other way.

- But we can't help falling in love. - We can't help defecating either. But we can choose where and when we are going to do it.

Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depth of my religious experience.

Your problems are not just your problems. Ultimately, they belong to the church body that God has placed you in.

The royals - all of them, especially Prince Philip and Prince Charles - have done outstanding work with the faith communities.

It's hard to look too grand when you're led by someone who looks like a pudding with legs.

Only one way to win when you're being chased by someone bigger and tougher than you. Turn straight around, punch their teeth out, and hope the gods are fond of you.