This country will kill you in a heartbeat and still people love it.

They were watching, out there past men's knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.

If much in the world were mystery the limits of that world were not, for it was without measure or bound and there were contained within it creatures more horrible yet and men of other colors and beings which no man has looked upon and yet not alien none of it more than were their own hearts alien in them, whatever wilderness contained there and whatever beasts.

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.

Dying ain't in people's plans, is it?

The voice of the Almighty speaks most profoundly in such things as lives in silence themselves.

If one were to be a person of value that value could not be a condition subject to hazards of fortune. It had to be a quality that could not change. No matter what.