“Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.”

“when I get to the end of what I’m saying, I have to believe in my having said it, that’s often all that’s needed just as water, flour, and yeast make bread.”

“The objectivity of the narrator is a modern invention, we need only reflect that our Lord God didn’t want it in his book.”

“Even death, faced with the option of death or life, she would choose life.”

“Such is our need to shower blame on some distant entity when it is we who lack the courage to face up to what is there before us.”

“We have deemed all these words necessary in order to explain that we have been traveling more slowly than was predicted, concision is not a definitive virtue, on occasion one loses out by talking too much, it is true, but how much has also been gained by saying more than was strictly necessary.”

“Perfect moments, especially when they verge on the sublime have the grave disadvantage of being very short lived, which in fact, being obvious, we would not need to mention were it not that they have a still greater disadvantage, which is that we do not know what to do once they are over.”