Despair is sometimes the great energizer of the mind, though sometimes its flowering may be sterile.
But what was a body? Dust, dung, urine, itches. It was the light within which was important, and it was not significant if that light endured after death, or if the soul was blinded eternally in the endless night of the suspired flesh.
Animals do not betray; they do not exploit; they do not oppress; they do not enslave; they do not sin. They have their being, and their being is honest, and who can say this of man?
God’s ‘failures’ are really man’s failures...
Women’s Lib? I couldn’t stand it.
I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation.
The more wants a man has, the less freedom.
Even the most malignant gods would not continue to inflict life upon humanity, time without end.
People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.
I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life.
I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted.
If a nation has not God that nation must fall, but if a nation has God then all the powers of evil, and all the armies, cannot shake its foundations; no, not even if the whole world is arrayed against it.
My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.
I converse with my dog through ESP.
One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India.
I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world.
I’ve always enjoyed poor health.
I have anonymously helped many thousands.
If there is a God, then he was particularly harsh to me.
I often reread books I have written.