When a writer tries to explain too much, he's out of time before he begins.

All that God does is for the good.

There is a plan to this universe. There is a high intelligence, maybe even a purpose, but it's given to us on the installment plan.

Some of my cronies call me a pessimist and a decadent, but there is always a background of faith behind resignation.

In many ways, astrology, numerology and palmistry are corruptions of the occult because they have attempted to make a practice out of something that is essentially imaginative.

When a day passes, it is no longer there. What remains of it? Nothing more than a story. If stories weren't told or books weren't written, man would live like the beasts, only for the day.

We must believe in free will - we have no choice.