Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness?

We comes from God, I from the Devil.

The lilac branches are bowed under the weight of the flowers: blooming is hard, and the most important thing is - to bloom. (“A Story About The Most Important Thing”)

The nights were long, like the braids of a pretty girl, and the days were short, like a girl's sense. ("The North")

Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.

True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.

A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth reading.

Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.

Literature is painting, architecture, and music.

There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.

We need writers who fear nothing. ("Our Goal")

Into each dance must be packed the panic and ecstasy of her last moment of life, for underneath was death.

I am affirming that the casting couch for men exists in the modeling world

If we had pursued the war on cancer which President Nixon declared in 1970, Jack Kemp might be alive today.

The further left you go, the meaner the spirit

I think it is a worthy goal in America to have every child protected by law and welcomed in life. I also think we ought to continue to have good adoption law as an alternative to abortion.

Thankfully, God brought wise Christian friends alongside to help me discover life-transforming precepts in his Word.

It's freeing, to think that there's always an aspect of us outside the grasp of speech, the common stuff of language.

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

We're trapped in linguistic constructs... all that is is metaphor.

Beware the viper in your closet. Isn’t that another thing you’re always saying, Father? Ambition and jealousy are at the heart of all betrayals. (Ryssa)