Lord, grant that my work increase knowledge and help other men. Failing that, Lord, grant that it will not lead to man’s destruction. Failing that, Lord, grant that my article in Brain be published before the destruction takes place.
Why did God make women so beautiful and man with such a loving heart?
Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know.
People who are ordinarily understood to dislike each other or at least to be indifferent toward each other discover that they have much in common.
This Midwestern sky is the nakedest loneliest sky in America. To escape it, people live inside and underground.
In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do anything less is to be less than a man.
Just because Jimmy Swaggart believes in God doesn’t mean that God does not exist.
…this miserable trick the romantic plays upon himself: of setting just beyond his reach the very thing he prizes.
….With pulleys and ropes and time to plan one could move anything. Now that she thought of it, why couldn’t anyone do anything he or she wished, given the tools and the time.
As for hobbies, people with stimulating hobbies suffer from the most noxious of despairs since they are tranquilized in their despair.
Why is it that one can look at a lion or a planet or an owl or at someone’s finger as long as one pleases, but looking into the eyes of another person is, if prolonged past a second, a perilous affair?
You live in a deranged age – more deranged than usual, because despite great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.
It is possible, however, that the artist is both thin-skinned and prophetic and, like the canary lowered into the mine shaft to test the air, has caught a whiff of something lethal.
Being uneducated is no guarantee against being obnoxious.
Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real?
You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.