The novel is, above all, an intense experience of prolonged intimacy with another consciousness.
And when the earth began to rumble and quake, as fear and frantic set in, he ran back inside the house past his wife and children, gathering all the valuables and things he thought of importance, and...
He shall rule, whom they look not for that dwell upon the earth, and the fowls shall take their flight away together:
Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook one loved as a child. Radiant meadows, mountains vaporous in the trembling distance; leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires...
Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'p...
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
There is no Situation in which Arms can get an Answer. Arms only ensure, that there would Never be an Answer.
I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money.
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations.
Don't make prayer a consistent battle, but rather constantly pray against life's battles.