...my pride in Joachim Mahlke was as sweet as chocolate creams.

Stuffed cats are able to creep more convincingly than live ones.

You never kill anyone you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.

Dogs are always good and full of selfless love. They are undiluted vessels of joy who never, ever deserve anything bad that happens to them.

"Why, what I may think after dinner," returns Mr. Jobling, "is one thing, my dear Guppy, and what I may think before dinner is another thing."

The Government will not abandon the free conversion of the rouble

One of the greatest tazkiya (purification) of the nafs (self) is to part with your money and to give it to people who deserve it.

For some reason I am one of those people who act like they were born and raised during the Depression.

People's lives are already cut out for them, and it's decided whether they will be successful or not.

You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.

God is love, the bishops tell. Yes, I know, But love is hell.

When I teach, I try to assign writers from whom I can learn.