“The primary purpose of reading the Bible is not to know the Bible but to know God.”

“You know you're a Puritan when you feel that even the Bible needs to be cleaned up.”

“I know of no book which has been a source ofbrutality and sadistic conduct, both public and private,that can compare with the Bible”

“A vision of the Shining One swirling into our world, a monstrous, glorious flaming pillar of incarnate, eternal Evil--of people passing through its radiant embrace into that hideous, unearthly life-in-death which I had seen enfold the sacrifices--of armies trembling into dancing atoms of diamond dust beneath the green ray's rhythmic death--of cities rushing out into space upon the wings of that other demoniac force which Olaf had watched at work--of a haunted world through which the assassins of the Dweller's court stole invisible, carrying with them every passion of hell--of the rallying to the Thing of every sinister soul and of the weak and the unbalanced, mystics and carnivores of humanity alike; for well I knew that, once loosed, not any nation could hold the devil-god for long and that swiftly its blight would spread!”

“A wonderful bird is the Pelican.His beak can hold more than his belly can.He can hold in his beakEnough food for a week!But I'll be darned if I know how the hellican?”

“Some fall in love. I shatter.”

“A sign in the window advertised thelong extinct Miller Genuine Draft.”