Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

I was wondering — I mean — could there be some mistake? Because nobody called me and Scrubb, you know. It was we who asked to come here. You would not have called me unless I had been calling you.

Odd, the way the less the Bible is read the more it is translated

Friendship is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others.

Don't say it was delightful; make us say delightful when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers Please will you do the job for me.

We know nothing of religion here: we only think of Christ.

Here. All of you. And you, doorkeeper. No one is to be let out of the house today. And anyone I catch talking about this young lady will be first beaten to death and then burned alive and after that be kept on bread and water for six weeks. There.