If the teaching of Christ were a law, it would not be a gospel {glad tiding}, but a sad tiding.

The Gospel does not say, "you must do good works." Rather, it fashions us into human beings, into creatures who cannot help serve God and fellow human beings. Without a doubt, a precious effect!

When along the pavement, Palpitating flames of life, People flicker around me, I forget my bereavement, The gap in the great constellation, The place where a star used to be

Note from Alien cookbook: “The more intelligent the human is, the better it tastes.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.

...and I suddenly feel that Henry is there, incredible need for Henry to be there and to put his hand on me even while it seems to me that Henry is the rain and I am alone and wanting him - Clare

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

Radomosity, thought Artemis. And he felt like weeping.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

To me art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk.

Don't you think there is always something unspoken between two people?