I hadn’t had a mother since I was two, and from then until seven I had believed God was someone who had run off with her and was living with her somewhere else... (God took your mother, dear, because he needed her more than you do) which had never endeared him to me

Most people think, when they're young, that they're going to the top of their chosen world, and that the climb up is only a formality. Without that faith, I suppose, they might never start. Somewhere on the way they lift their eyes to the summit and know they aren't going to reach it; and happiness then is looking down and enjoying the view they've got, not envying the one they haven't.

Everyone journeys through character as well as through time. The person one becomes depends on the person one has been.

Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they dont apply to you.

Let an idea swim to the surface like a fish in a pool...let the mind drift to the vision.

Historically, more people have died of religion than cancer.

But one discarded dreams and got dressed, and made what one could of the day.