The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell. And the funny thing is that you’re a salesman, and you don’t know that.
Now hell and heaven grapple on our backs and all our old pretense is ripped away. Aye, and God’s icy wind will blow.
I still feel-kind of temporary about myself.
Rise early. Write. Disappoint your sons. Read the newspaper. Go to bed early. Success.
Work a lifetime to pay off a house You finally own it and there’s nobody to live in it.
I’ve always made a point of not wasting my life, and every time I come back here I know that all I’ve done is to waste my life.
Witch-hunts are always spooked by women’s horrifying sexuality awakened by the superstud Devil.
Amos Oz is one of the finest novelists of this entire period. MY MICHAEL is a beautiful work of great depth and in some indescribable way lingers in the mind as a lyric song to his country’s people as much as a moving love story.
What work you do! It’s strange work for a Christian girl to hang old women!
Great stones they lay upon his chest until he plead aye or nay. They say he give them but two words. “More weight,” he says. And died.
I know you’re no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man. I saw you as my father.
He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him!
I am bewildered by the death of love. And my responsibility for it.
Cleave to no faith when faith brings blood.
When any creativity becomes useful, it is sucked into the vortex of commercialism, and when a thing becomes commercial, it becomes the enemy of man.
The word “now” is like a bomb through the window, and it ticks.
Flight Reservation Systems decide whether or not you exist. If your information isn’t in their database, then you simply don’t get to go anywhere.
Suicide kills two people.
It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves.
Life, woman, life is God’s most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it.