Atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them – and then they leap.
High calls low and low calls high. I tell you, if you were in such dire straits as I was, you too would elevate your thoughts. The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar.
It was a huge zoo, spread over numberless acres, big enough to require a train to explore it, though it seemed to get smaler as I grew older, train included. Now it’s so small it fits in my head.
I couldn’t get Him out of my head. Still can’t. I spent three solid days thinking about Him. The more He bothered me, the less I coul forget Him. And the more I learned about Him, the less I wanted to leave Him.
We are all born like Catholics, aren’t we – in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God?
I was not wounded in any part of my body, but I had never experienced such intense pain, such a ripping of the nerves, such an ache of the heart.
You can get used to anything – haven’t I already said that? Isn’t that what all survivors say?
Was it the forgetfulness of old age or personal incapacity that made the man able to say please but not thank you?
My alarm clock during my childhood was a pride of lions.
I thought they were helping me. I was so full of trust in them that I felt grateful as they carried me in the air. Only when they threw me overboard did I begin to have doubts.
For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out.
As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.
How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.
My ears were full. Nothing more, not one more sound, could push into them and be registered.
First wonder goes deepest; wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first.
Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.
Stories – individual stories, family stories, national stories – are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story animals.
I felt I was beating a rainbow to death.
Books, like people, can’t be reduced to the cost of the materials with which they were made. Books, like people, become unique and precious once you get to know them.
Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.