Suffering is how we test our love especially our love for God.

hate has no literature: real fear and real hate have no words

Do you know the story of the scorpion and the frog? You know, the frog agrees to carry the scorpion across the river, because the scorpion promises not to sting him. And then the scorpion stings the frog, half way across the river. The drowning frog asks him why he did it, when they'll both drown, and the scorpion says that he's a scorpion, and it's his nature to sting.

There's no such thing as forever.

Friendship is also a kind of medicine, and the markets for it, too, are sometimes black.

And money, if the pile gets high enough, is something like a big political party: it does as much harm as it does good, it puts too much power in too few hands, and the closer you come to it the dirtier you get.

Civilization, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit.