“Don’t go the way the world takes you, take the world the way you go.”

“Christian love is not a wave of emotion, but a deliberate conviction of the mind that issues in a biblical way of life.”

“You sought the power of my book . . . But that power is mine . . . mine alone . . . carelessly you a lesser entity, toyed with it . . . but it is mine . . . just as the book was mine . . . and now you are mine . . . and I . . . I am hungry.”

“Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.”

“What can you do. You get a name, you're called 'Thomas Bernhard', and it stays that way for the rest of your life. And if at some point you go for a walk in the woods, and someone takes a photo of you, then for the next eighty years you're always walking in the woods. There's nothing you can do about it.”

“Jesus Christ is Lord of all, and all things have been put under his feet. There are no exceptions.”

“No company like good books, especially the book of God.”