Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
When he went back to the fire he knelt and smoothed her hair as she slept and he said if he were God he would have made the world just so and no different.
I’d rather to make a good run as a bad stand.
If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it. In the law courts, in business, in government. There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent.
Creedless shells of men tottering down the causeways like migrants in a feverland.
Ever step you take is forever. You cant make it go away. None of it. You understand what I’m sayin?
She smiled. I think it’s just the snow. I think it makes people stop and think. Bell nodded. I hope it comes a blizzard then.
It is not my experience that life’s difficulties make people more charitable.
When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die.
Even if what you’re working on doesn’t go anywhere, it will help you with the next thing you’re doing. Make yourself available for something to happen. Give it a shot.
What business is it of yours where I’m from, friendo?
On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world.
Where in this pukehole can a man get a drink? he said.
How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it.
Every man’s death is standing in for every other. And since death comes to all there is no way to abate the fear of it except to love the man who stands for us.
Only that man who has offered up himself entire to the blood of war, who has been to the floor of the pit and seen the horror in the round and learned at last that it speaks to his inmost heart, only that man can dance. – The judge.
For things at a common destination there is a common path. Not always easy to see. But there.
This country was filled with violent children orphaned by war.
He believed in God even if he was doubtful of men’s claims to know God’s mind. But that a God unable to forgive was no God at all.