“Man is able to decide for or against reason, he is able to create beyond reason or to destroy below reason”
“The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories.”
“It's one of the reasons I became a writer, to be able to smoke in peace.”
“There is a reason for everything, Opal. You might not be able to figure it out, and time might have made us all forget it, but the reason is there all the same.”
“Man may think human intellect and reasoning are almighty, that the brain is able to comprehend all truths of the world; but the verdict of God's Word is, "vanity of vanities.”
“..Some of our loves and attachments are elemental and beyond our choosing, and for that very reason they come spiced with pain and regret and need and hollowness and a feeling as close to anger as I will ever be able to imagine. ”