The assumption that things which have been conjured in the past will always be conjured in the guiding principle not of rational but of animal behavior.

Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect.

There is someone I accept even though I do not approve of all he does...and that someone is me

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

The Christian has a great advantage over other men, not by being less fallen than they, nor less doomed to live in a fallen world, but by knowing that he is a fallen man in a fallen world.

Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself.

Writing is like a 'lust,' or like 'scratching when you itch.' Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I for one must get it out.