To what do you not drive human hearts, cursed for craving gold!

Man hovers between Paradise and the Pit.

To ignore his capacity for evil is as obtuse as blinding oneself to the heights to which he can soar.

It wasn't that she had anything against the faith of the New Testament; left alone, it would be a tender and compassionate religion.... No, what Adelia objected to was the Church's interpretation of God as a petty, stupid, moneygrubbing, retrograde, antediluvian tyrant who, having created a stupendously varied world, had forbidden any inquiry into its complexity, leaving His people flailing in ignorance.

Love, however doomed, had the capacity to attach buoys to the soul.

Truth travels slowly and gets weaker as it goes. Suitable lies are strong and run faster.

The law should be the point at which savagery ended because civilization stood in its path.

Tomorrows were full of awful things. Today, now, was the essential.