Faith is the enemy of discovery.
Sin is absence of God. Nothing more, nothing less.
You can tell nothing from a man's appearance, nothing except the depths of your own prejudice.
When you look around now we have the war on terror. Yes, okay, the World Trade Center was sort of like a single act of war, but nothing else has been. We've turned it into war. We're talking about a bunch of semi-lunatic, fanatic criminals. That's the way they should be treated.
If God resides anywhere ... surely he shelters behind barricades of pure chance.
Sometimes I think that novelists suffer from P.C.S.: Perpetual Childhood Syndrome.