Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.
...because I went to London on my own, and because I went to solved the mystery of Who Killed Wellington? and I found my mother and I was brave and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything.
Well, for instance, why does everything always have to be written from the point of view of a human being? Why not write from the point of view of a cat? Or a tree?
It all began with a bucket of eggs.
There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.
Then he asked if I didn’t like things changing. And I said I wouldn’t mind things changing if I became an astronaut, for example, which is one of the biggest changes you can imagine, apart from becoming a girl or dying.
...to encounter me now at age sixty-six is to be unable to imagine me at fifteen...
Childhood was the past. It couldn't be changed, only remembered.
Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.
For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
When I come to be united to thee with all my being, then there will be no more pain and toil for me, and my life shall be a real life, being wholly filled by thee.
The happy life is this - to rejoice to thee, in thee, and for thee.
You need some coffee, don't you?" "Yes, I've only had a gallon.
I probably felt more resentment for what I personally was to suffer than for the wrong they were doing to anyone and everyone. But at that time I was determined not to put up with badly behaved people more out of my own interest than because I wanted...
Most argument, and in fact most conflict, has nothing to do with the present. It's always about the past or the future. People can't agree on the details of what has happened or is going to happen. But we rarely know what has happened, and we never k...
Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
Imagine all contradictions, all possible incompatibilities--you will find them in the government, in the law-courts, in the churches, in the public shows of this droll nation.
A hero can be afraid, but a hero never runs away.
...the arts and criminality have always flourished side by side.
I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.
Ideology is the light that creates darkness.
