Faith shall save your Soul from Death. Without Faith, Death is a drowning, the end of ends, and what sane man wouldn't fear that? But with Faith, Death is nothing worse than the end of the voyage we call life, and the beginning of an eternal voyage in a company of our Loved Ones, with griefs and woes smoothed out, and under the capacity of our Creator.

Have you noticed," said John, "how countries call theirs 'sovereign nuclear deterrents,' but call the other countries' ones 'weapons of mass destruction'?

My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?

History admits no rules; only outcomes.

What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds.

I rarely ever put my head above the rampart and see where this big lumbering behemoth called 'global literature' is going.

Love's pure free joy when it works, but when it goes bad you pay for the good hours at loan-shark prices.