The way his plump hand clutched at her hip seemed somehow improper; not morally$$$ aesthetically.

There's lots of things you don't know. All kinds of strange things . . . mostly they happened before we were born: that makes them seem to me so much more real.

But he does look stupid. "Yearning. Not stupid. He wants awfully to be on the inside staring out: anybody with their nose pressed against a glass is liable to look stupid."

Man should not submit to the powers from outside but command them. How to do it is the problem.

Reading what you want$$$ and having one book lead to the next$$$ is the way I found my discipline.

If you are falling....dive.

Nobody these days holds the written word in such high esteem as police states do.

The fact is that I find in the day's light$$$ in this diffused$$$ pale$$$ almost shadowless luminosity$$$ a darkness deeper than the night's.

We are in no position to rely upon Gods promises unless we obey his commandments.

That there is nothing put forth in Scripture which it is not profitable to know.