It was my first clue that atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like
It is not atheists who get stuck in my craw, but agnostics. Doubt is useful for a while. We must all pass through the garden of Gethsemane. If Christ played with doubt, so must we. If Christ spent an...
I underestimated her. I under-estimated her grit. She
I preferred to set off and perish in search of my own kind than to live a lonely half-life of physical comfort and spiritual death on this murderous island.
I noticed how those who know the truth are always treated with suspicion and disdain. That was the case with Jesus, of course. But look at old Miss Marple. Always she knows, and everyone is surprised...
I must say a word about fear. It's is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, sh...
I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.
I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he’s not careful.
I had to stop hoping so much that a ship would rescue me. I should not count on outside help. Survival had to start with me. In my experience, a castaway’s worst mistake is to hope too much and to do...
I don't believe in religion. Religion is darkness
I can well imagine an athiest's last words: White, white! L-L-Love! My God! - and the deathbed leap of faith. Whereas the agnostic, if he stays true to his reasonable self, if he stays beholden to dry...
How bitterly glad I am to see you. You bring joy and pain in equal measure. Joy because you are with me, but pain because it won't be for long. What do you know about the sea? Nothing. What do I know...
Gloom is but a shadow of a cloud passing by
First wonder goes deepest; wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first. I
Cái quan trọng ở đời là phải kết thúc mọi thứ cho chỉn chu. Có thế ta mới yên tâm mà đi được. Nếu không thì lúc nào trong ta cũng đầy những lời muốn nói mà chẳng bao giờ nói, và lòng ta sẽ nặng trĩu â...
Come aboard if your destination is oblivion—it should be our next stop. We can sit together. You can have the window seat, if you want. But it’s a sad view. Oh,
Come aboard if your destination is oblivion - it should be our next stop.
Colonialism is a terrible bane for a people upon whom it is imposed, but a blessing for a language. English's drive to exploit the new and the alien, its zeal in robbing words from other languages, it...
But language founders in such seas. Better to picture it in your head if you want to feel it.
Animals in the wild lead lives of compulsion and necessity within an unforgiving social hierarchy in an environment where the supply of fear is high and the supply of food low and where territory must...