How would you know if you were the last man on Earth? He said. I don't guess you would know it. You'd just be it. Nobody would know it. It wouldn't make any difference. When you die it's the same as if everybody else died too.

He thought that in the history of the world it might even be that there was more punishment than crime but he took small comfort from it.

What could a child know of the darkness of God's plan? Or how flesh is so frail it is hardly more than a dream

you fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain't nothin to be done about it it aint even a problem. It's just a aggravation.

People don't pay attention. And then one day there's an accounting. And after that, nothing is the same.

It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it.

He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.