I find the world and all it contains extremely fascinating. Is this sinful?

Three Rules for Literary Success: 1. Read a lot. 2. Write a lot. 3. Read a lot more, write a lot more.

Utopias are boring. Distopias on the other hand, are interesting.

Thus does the unyielding, inescapable future ineluctably devour the present.

Never pass by a chance to shut up.

When you know that something is dying inside you, you learn not to put much trust in the random vitalities of the fleeting moment.

Ignorance can't be pardoned. Only cured.

Men of great spirit are at high risk at a time when small souls rule the world.

We are born by accident into a purely random universe.

Unacceptable, maybe. But not unthinkable. Nothing's unthinkable once somebody's thought it.

I hate no one, sir. It seems a waste of emotional energy.

Oppressors specialise in rasing wolves from amonst the sheep then together with the wolves devour the sheep

The best we can do is size up the chances calculate the risks involved estimate our ability to deal with them and then make our plans with confidence.

Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.

Custom creates the whole of equity, for the simple reason that it is accepted.

I woke up this morning, Smiled at the rising sun, Three little birds, Sat on my doorstep, Singing sweet songs

I have tasted a thrill in fellowship with God which has made anything discordant with God disgusting.

[T]hat I could find company and consolation and hope in an object pulled almost at random from a bookshelf--felt akin to an instance of religious grace.

Perhaps there is no agony worse than the tedium I experienced waiting for Something to Happen.

Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.

God has positioned me just this way to be just like I am, to say what I say how I say it.