But the most insidious and dangerous of false religions is secular humanism. It’s so crafty, so sneaky, with its kindness and its decency, that only Satan hisself could’ve come up with it.
All things considered, I’ve learned more from talking to painters than talking to writers. Not that painters are smarter than writers, such is seldom the case, but in conversation writers are inclined...
Actually, there are two kinds of people in this world: those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who are smart enough to know better.
'how then does soul differ from spirit?' you're probably asking yourself. although he must have been reasonably sure nobody was. Well, soul is darker of color, denser of volume, saltier of flavor, rou...
Küçük mucizeleri kabul ettiğimiz zaman kendimizi büyük mucizeleri hayal edebilecek yeterlilikte hissederiz. bir istiridyenin içinden parlak, canlı, lezzetli bir canlının çıkabileceğini kabul ettiğimiz...
[R]ed hair is slow to lay back once it's got its dandruff up, and her bitchy mood required further opportunity to express itself.
Under an orchard tree, dropping with cherries, cowgirls lay in the shade. They fed each other fruit. Dark juice dribbled into dimples. Cherry meat stained smiles and nostrils.
Twenty candles on a cake. Twenty Camels in a pack. Twenty months in the federal pen. Twenty shots of tequila down a young girl’s gullet. Twenty centuries since Our Lord’s last pratfall, and after all...
To diminish the worth of women, men had to diminish the worth of the moon. They had to drive a wedge between human beings and the trees and the beasts and the waters, because trees and beasts and wate...
The illusion of the seventh veil was the illusion that you could get somebody else to do it for you. To think for you. To hang on your cross. The priest, the rabbi, the imam, the swami, the philosophi...
Reality is subjective, and there’s an unenlightened tendency in this culture to regard something as ‘important’ only if ‘tis sober and severe. Sure and still you’re right about your Cheerful Dum, only...
It's hard to say who's a greater threat to the world, an ambitious CEO with a big ad budget or a crafty cleric with an obsolete Bible verse.
I do not know why the dead do not come back to life. Perhaps death is so wonderful, in ways we cannot comprehend, that they prefer it over and above their friends and loved ones, although I am incline...
Everything that's alvie was born, and everything that was born has got to die. There's no getting around it. It's the law of the universe.The universe does not have laws. It has habits. And habits can...
Every time a person goes to the mall, she loses a little piece of her soul