But where I itty now, O my brothers, is all on my oddy knocky, where you cannot go. Tomorrow is all like sweet flowers and the turning vonny earth and the stars and the old Luna up there. ... And all that cal.

...the essential intention is the real sin. A man who cannot choose ceases to be a man.

...We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.

All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else.

Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?

If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly with sex and violence. These remain the basic themes, they're the basic themes of Shakespeare whether you like it or not.

Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?