Maybe poetry is the only way we can get near the truth of God.… And when the metaphors fail, we think it’s God who’s failed us!
I honestly don’t know if the world would be better or worse if we all held ourselves to the vows of our youth.
Hair and crumbs and unidentifiable orts to be vacuumed,
Sadie was at his side when the old desire to leave everything behind rose up in him again.Suppose . . . he began. Suppose . . .Then he moved on, one last time.
I think the world will be a better place when science has swept all religion into the dustbin of history. What is religion but a shared belief in things that cannot be known? When we substitute concur...
I think the world will be a better place when science has swept all religions into the dustbin of history. What is religion but a shared belief in things that cannot be known.
She wondered if men ever figured out that they were more appealing when they were pursuing their own work than when they were pursuing a woman.
I would not have voted for the man, Doc admitted, but this— He lifted a fine-boned hand toward the street, where small groups of Cow Boys were now tearing down Allen on horseback, shooting at the sky...
I'll take honest arrogance over fake humility any day.
IF YOU WANT A STORYBOOK ENDING, stop—now—and remember them in that tender moment. Be content to know that they embarked on a series of adventures throughout the West and that they stayed together thro...
Within himself, Tom Fisher smiles serenely. It's almost too easy. Promise these morons something they want. Let them believe in it. Then take it away. And tell them who's to blame.
The problem with atheism, I find, under these circumstances, is that I have no one to despise but myself. If, however, I choose to believe that God is vicious, then at least I have the solace of hatin...
The world is filled with unreasonable hate. What's wrong with unreasonable love?
Out whose side they were on. Even Fat
Not just survival but a good life, full of learning, full of love, Emilio thought, and took a step closer to the death he felt inside himself. He
Eternal beginner, starting over and over in a new place in new circumstances, with new languages, new people, a new commission. They had this in common: the continual rushed confrontation with change,...
The mission, he thought, probably failed because of a series of logical, reasonable, carefully considered decisions, each of which seemed like a good idea at the time. Like most colossal disasters.
Tidy up before leaving for the day. When
It didn’t occur to him to think that better is not the same as well. Was he fooling himself? He would not have said so. Even at twenty-two, when his diagnosis was confirmed, he was realistic. Most suf...
Our physicists have confirmed the practicality of using an altered asteroid for transport,
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