The echoes of childhood torments have great power, even when not brought to mind in such an inexplicable and horrifying way.

The lives God gives to us, the awful things we can’t escape from. Sometimes I think that sort of God would enjoy making hell for us after we die.

Have you ever thought what a God would be like who actually ordained and executed the cruelty that is in [the biblical Book of Revelation]? A holocaust of mankind. Yet so many of these Bible-men accept the idea without a second thought.

In worshipping their nationhood men worship themselves and scorn others, and that is no healthy thing.

Truly, as the ancients taught us, there is nothing under the moon, however fine, that is not subject to corruption.

If I knocked and waited at every door, who knows what I might miss?

The echoes of childhood torments have great power, even when not brought to mind in such an inexplicable and horrifying way.