Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise.

Being employed is like being loved: you know that somebody's thinking about you the whole time.

How do you know what the world is like? Do you know the world is a foul sty? Do you know if you rip the fronts off houses you'd find swine? The world's a hell. What does it matter what happens in it?

Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery ... He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift.... There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.

I not only bow to the inevitable; I am fortified by it.

Favors cease to be favors when there are conditions attached to them.