Her shoes were comfortable. They reflected her hope for the evening.

But a myth, to speak plainly, to me is like a menu in a fancy French restaurant: glamorous, complicated camouflage for a fact you wouldn't otherwise swallow, like maybe lima beans.

What looked like morning was the beginning of endless night

God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials.

Perhaps evil is the crucible of goodness... and perhaps even Satan - Satan, in spite of himself - somehow serves to work out the will of God.

As far as God goes, I _am_ a nonbeliever. Still am. But when it comes to a devil---well, that's something else.

The child was slender as fleeting hope.

We use concepts like "consciousness"---"mind"---"personality, " but we don't really know yet what these things are.' He was shaking his head. 'Not really. Not at all.

But if all of the evil in the world makes you think that there might be a devil, Chris, how do you account for all the good?

Do you know what she did? Your cunting daughter?

I try not to take myself too seriously. I like to have a good time.

Gratitude's not a natural posture. The prince of darkness is ultimately a spoiled ingrate, and I've spent most of my life as kin to the fist-shaker.

I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.

War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...

An ability to compromise is important. That means stepping back and getting the ego out of the way in order to accomplish what you want to get done.

if a book is not good enough for a grownup, it is not good enough for a child.

Lucifer is God in the public school system

Myself will straight aboard, and to the state This heavy act with heavy heart relate.

At least I had that, one guy understood me.