How can I be so evil? It ain't easy.
Christian theology: nothing so grotesque could possibly be true.
In all of nature, there is no sound more pleasing than that of a hungry animal at its feed. Unless you are the food.
I would like to evoke the sense of wonder and magic in the reader but without invoking the mystical, the supernatural or the transcendent.
Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
Most of us lead lives of chaotic improvisation from day to day, bawling for peace while plunging grimly into fresh disorders.