What if you're chicken? What if you're more chicken than chicken soup?" Malloy said. Kit gave him a long, hard look. "Then you pretend you're not. You pretend so hard it comes true.

I really don't know how he does it. How he can take any situation and seduce its pants off. It's a talent really.

Our awareness of God starts where self-sufficiency ends.

You must live in a place where you can walk safely all alone even after midnights!

There are still many people in America who regard depressions as acts of God. I think Keynes proved that the responsibility for these occurrences does not rest with Providence.

The food of hope is meditative action.

There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils, of the present times.

Test everything, including assumptions

By the time I recognize this moment, this moment will be gone. . . But I will bend the light, pretend that it somehow lingered on

I love her (Lucifer), with all my heart. She said that she would give me greatness, status, placement above the others.

We are inclined to call things by the wrong names. We call prosperity 'happiness', and adversity 'misery' eventhough adversity is the school of wisdom and often the way to eternal happiness.