“Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.”
“Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made (man) is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one... that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain.”
“When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires”
“If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.”
“But it would be like going to Heaven and not finding any of your friends there. Her life would go all beatific and empty in the eyes.”
“Jerome has merited hell rather than heaven for it-so little would I dare to recognize or call him a saint.”