One should be embarrassed to speak of God in the third person.

Because a doubt is not a denial. Doubt is a powerful tool, and it should be applied to history.

When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs the deathlike peace of the life-weary.

....to abuse the intellect for reasons of pride, vanity, or escape from responsibility, is the fruit of that same tree.

Speak up, destiny, speak up! Destiny always seems decades away, but suddenly it's not decades away; it's right now. But maybe destiny is always right now, right here, right this very instant, maybe.

It is said that water is for cattle and farmers, that milk is for children and blood for men.

I'm not so sure he's mad, Father. Just a little devious in his sanity.