I’d thought I knew what beauty was in women; but she’d surpassed all the language I had for it.

The truth is most women are weak, be they mortal or immortal. But when they are strong, they are absolutely unpredictable.

We’re going to die and not even know. We’ll never know, and all this meaninglessness will just go on and on and on. And we won’t any longer be witnesses to it. We won’t have even that little bit of power to give meaning to it in our minds. We’ll just be gone, dead, dead, dead, without ever knowing!

And then there came the pounding of another drum, as if another giant were coming yards behind him, and each giant, intent on his own drum, gave no notice to the rhythm of the other. The sound grew louder and louder until it seemed to fill not just my hearing but all my senses, to be throbbing in my lips and fingers, in the flesh of my temples, in my veins.

I left Christianity because I wanted to be a moral person. That is why I left. I no longer believed in its lies.

Everyone is a potential naked slave to you once you become a trainer.

I can't get very far away from Christianity, I can't get very far away from the angels and the saints. I work them in always, in some way.