The ways of sin are curious . . . I guess if a man had to shuck off everything he had, inside and out, he'd manage to hide a few little sins somewhere for his own discomfort. They're the last things we'll give up.

An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it, and it's usually crucifixion.

The sale of souls to gain the whole world is completely voluntary and almost unanimous...but not quite.

The human is the only guilty animal.

Intentions, good or bad, are not enough. There's luck or fate or something else that takes over.

A wife is like a children's movie; always under-appreciated and without either, life would be incomplete.

I can understand why a system built on a pattern must try to destroy the free mind, for that is one thing which can by inspection destroy such a system. Surely I can understand this, and I hate it and I will fight against it to preserve the one thing that separates us from the uncreative beasts. If the glory can be killed, we are lost.