Love always was and always will be the only real answer. Why else do you think we have been taught so much hate?
The love hidden within is always greater than the hate displayed without.
Storm destroys, man also destroys, so man is a storm too! But contrary to storm, man can learn not to destroy!
The eye of a man is never satisfied with what it sees.
I'm convinced that whatever contains human emotions is composed of the most fragile material, for it can shatter unpredictably and without effort. And yet it is a resilient marvel as well, able to...
You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think.
All our life we had been dreaming to get through every little hole into this beautiful and unfamiliar world where parents and children love each other not for something but in spite of everything, to...
I didn't know who to believe but one thing I do know: when a man is living many claim relationships that are hardly so and after he dies, well, then it's everybody's party.
What could anyone confess that would be worth anything or serve any useful purpose? What has happened to us has either happened to everyone or to us alone
The feel of her skin as she struggled beneath, the life inside, the death without. The breaching of life and death, of survival uncaged inside him: a dark beast with violence and sex in its soul. In...
I may be clean cut on the outside, but make no mistake. He moved even closer, close enough to see her pulse jump at the base of her neck. I like to get very, very dirty when nobody's looking.
The pride of man hopes but to blame God for the evils of the world, and to praise himself for the good.
There is a method to man's wickedness
If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the...
As much as we hate to admit it, we are sinners by birth. We are also sinners by choice. We are also sinners by practice.
There are many new sinners today, but there aren't any new sins, just the old ones clothed in different rags.
Flesh is the Bible's word for unperfected human nature. Leaving off the "h" and spelling it in reverse, we have the word self. Flesh is the self - life: it is what we are when we are left to our own...
That excuse only works until you discover the person is merely an individual like any other.
I found that disturbing the night's calm ambience was almost as gratifying as the ambience itself.
I always worried because whenever a drought struck, an accursed storm of blood always followed.
Why people wanted to dance whenever it got dark was beyond him. Somehow, the two seemed to go together, like bees and flowers, or flies and dung. Darkness and dancing.
Kali has a habit of doing these beautiful works that never translate during the races in the afternoon. They call animals like her morning glories, or horrendous bets. Take your pick.
When one is in love one thinks only of one.
Oh, I can't explain. When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make...
Some friend of yours, perhaps? "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage visitors."
Mr. Pembroke, watching his broad back, desired to bury a knife in it. The desire passed, partly because it was unclerical, partly because he had no knife, and partly because he soon blurred over what...
She posed as being more indolent than she felt, for fear of finding herself less able than she could wish.
A man has to have something he can put faith in.
Each person has the potential to be good and productive, yet I also know that many people never begin to tap their true potential. It is human nature to surrender to the lowest common denominator. We...
The hearts of everyone, the feeling is different. Everyone in this world, the behavior is different. The eyes are all the same.. But everyone's view is different.
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...