They still believe in God, the family, angels, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other obsolete stuff.

When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.

It is written, better to be a fool all your days than for one hour to be evil. You are not a fool. They are the fools. For he who causes his neighbor to feel shame loses Paradise himself.

But if we have people who have the power to tell a story, there will always be readers.

What happened was no accident. Everything was preordained. True, the will was free, but heaven also made its ordinances.

As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right.

We are all God's creatures-that we pray to God for mercy and justice while we continue to eat the flesh of animals that are slaughtered on our account is not consistent.