Literature is still doing the same job that mythology did earlier, but filling in its huge cloudy shapes with sharper lights and deeper shadows.

A person who knows nothing about literature may be an ignoramus, but many people don't mind being that.

(U)derneath all the complexity of human life that uneasy stare at an alien nature is still haunting us, and the problem of surmounting it is still with us.

Well, everybody does it that way, Huck.""Tom, I am not everybody.

Some things come with their own punishments.

The reason why America was built is so that we would have the ability to choose who we pray to, whether we do or don't.

It is possible to combine a story line and plot line in the same work. Usually the storylines comes first, serving as a background to the plot line, but not always.

The ministry of Christianity is the ministry of the Spirit. It is the Spirit of God that inhabits the words, that speaks to the spirit of another and reveals Christ in and through him.

The atheist must abandon his defensive positions, take up the cudgels and go forward, rather than into the retreat of apathy.

You can put anything into words, except your own life.

I wish everyone a wonderful World Cup, played in a spirit of true fraternity.

Many who tried to enlighten were hanged from the lamppost.

To fail to pray, then, is not to merely break some religious rule- it is a failure to treat God as God.