“Our heaven is their hell, said God. I like a balanced universe.”

“The mind is a universe and can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”

“I'm a little of both and not quite all of the other. I'm a part of the world and not enough of the universe. There is no Heaven without Hell and there is no Hell without a Heaven. God and the Devil resides in all of us. It's up to us to plan our future and it's the choices we make in life that help to determine that future." - Lynn Mullican”

“Nor did he give a damn for the world either, or the universe, or heaven or hell. But he liked women.”

“You have been to hell, Ketut?"He smiled. Of course he's been there.What's it like in hell?" Same like in heaven," he said.He saw my confusion and tried to explain. "Universe is a circle, Liss."He said. "To up, to down -- all same, at end."I remembered an old Christian mystic notion: As above, so below. I asked. "Then how can you tell the difference between heaven and hell?"Because of how you go. Heaven, you go up, through seven happy places. Hell, you go down, through seven sad places. This is why it better for you to go up, Liss." He laughed.Same-same," he said. "Same in end, so better to be happy in journey."I said, "So, if heaven is love, then hell is.. " Love, too," he said. Ketut laughed again, "Always so difficult for young people to understand this!”

“What makes the earth feel like hell is our expectation that it ought to feel like heaven. Earth is earth. Hell is hell. Now, stop with the whining and caterwauling.”