Not so much two ships passing in the night as two ships sailing together for a time but always bound for different ports.

Every island to a child is a treasure island.

Unnatural death always provoked a peculiar unease, an uncomfortable realization that there were still some things that might not be susceptible to bureaucratic control.

That's what "meaning" is—a special additive like salt or garlic that could make even the most fetid piece of meat seem palpable, even delicious.

The real comic muse is the one underwhose laughing mask tears roll down.

God is only mocked by believers.

No one seemed able to look at themselves, coolly, from the outside. Their reality was all that could be seen in the light cast ahead by their own wishful thinking.

All men of goodwill have this in common - that our works put us to shame.

Never buy hardcover books. They are designed to sell to those who don't actually read. Along with books, many other things can be read: natural scenery, love, officialdom, business¡­

God's canopy is over you and will cover you at all times, preserving you from evil.

The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.

The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.

One of the fundamental conditions of happiness is to know that everything that one does has a meaning in eternity