We are swimming on the face of time and all else has drowned, is drowning, or will drown.

The Frenchman is first and foremost a man. He is likeable often just because of his weaknesses, which are always thoroughly human, even if despicable.

Keep your exclamation points under control!

As far as history goes I am dead. If there is something beyond I shall have to bounce back. I have found God, but he is insufficient. I am only spiritually dead. Physically I am alive. Morally I am free. The world which I have departed is a menagerie.

But it's just because the chances are all against you, just because there is so little hope, that life is sweet over here.

If we have not found heaven within, it is a certainty we will not find it without.

Your whole past is like a long sleep which would have been forgotten had there been no memory, but remembrance is there in the blood and the blood is like an ocean in which everything is washed away but that which is new and more substantial even than life - reality.