When I was a child I truly loved:Unthinking love as calm and deepAs the North Sea. But I have lived, And now I do not sleep.

Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see.

It would be, for me, mere pointless pleasure, an illusion of order for this one frail, foolish, flicker-flash in the long dull fall of eternity.

So childhood too feels good at first, before one happens to notice the terrible sameness, age after age.

They watch on, evil, incredibly stupid, enjoying my destruction.'Poor Grendel's had an accident, ' I whisper. 'So may you all.

My advice to you, my violent friend, is to seek out gold and sit on it.

What do you call the Hrothgar-wrecker when Hrothgar has been wrecked?

I had a chance. I knew I had no more than that. it's all a hero asks for.

All order, I've come to understand, is theoretical, unreal — a harmless, sensible, smiling mask men slide between the two great, dark realities, the self and the world — two snake pits.

It's not easy to kill a mountain goat. He thinks with his spine.

In life, you learned that not all white people are racist, not all black folks are criminals, let's admit it and love one another..

Life is the only thing which can never be replaced when lost.

There are places we fear, places we dream, places whose exiles we became and never learned it until, sometimes, too late.

Waiting accentuates our helplessness, ant that is what God seems committed to revealing. Only when we know ourselves to be helpless do we fully experience his grace and glory. We have to wait for it.

A computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things.

We must speak the truth if we are to be a great nation

I don't pick on politicians. They ain't done nothin'.

That was the Liam Stewart way of saying, Hi, darlin', missed you something fierce.

I read about writers' lives with the fascination of one slowing down to get a good look at an automobile accident.

In what we really understand, we reason but little.