God is found in this Life ... to wait for another is folly.
If our god's work is to be done in our time, we must do it ourselves.
Merely to live without a pain Is little gladness, little gain, Ah, welcome joy tho' mixt with grief-- The thorn-set flower that crowns the leaf.
The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.
You treat violence as an aberration ... when in truth it is the norm. It is the very essence of the human condition.
There is a certain solipsism to serious illness which claims all of one's attention as certainly as an astronomical black hole seizes anything unlucky enough to fall within its critical radius.