I only wanted to suggest to you that self-sacrifice is a passion so overwhelming that beside it even lust and hunger are trifling.

A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.

Well, you know when people are no good at anything else they become writers.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself?

I thought with melancholy how an author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart’s blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do.

The stars up close to the moon were pale they got brighter and braver the farther they got out of the circle of light ruled by the giant moon

Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots.

Music rearranges your molecular structure.

I love seeing black people do normal things, being judged as normal people.

Leaving New Orleans also frightened me considerably. Outside of the city limits the heart of darkness, the true wasteland begins.

Shraddha means self-confidence and self-confidence means faith in God.

If you go around looking for accidents, asking for them, they can't be called accidents any more.

I just wanted to do something important.

Everyone must be a missionary, everyone can hear that call of Jesus and go forth and proclaim the Kingdom!

Would it have been worth while, To have bitten off the matter with a smile, To have squeezed the universe into a ball To roll it towards some overwhelming question