The Deepest Difference Between Religions Is Not

Success Is No Proof Of Virtue. In The Case Of A Book, Quick Acclaim Is Presumptive Evidence Of A Lack Of Substance And Originality.

Let People Who Do Not Know What To Do With Themselves In This Life, But Fritter Away Their Time Reading Magazines And Watching Television, Hope For Eternal Life... The Life I Want Is A Life I Could Not Endure In Eternity. It Is A Life Of Love And Intensity, Suffering And Creation, That Makes Life Worthwhile And Death Welcome. There Is No Other Life I Should Prefer. Neither Should I Like Not To Die.

Those Who Believe In God Because Their Experience Of Life And The Facts Of Nature Prove His Existence Must Have Led Sheltered Lives And Closed Their Hearts To The Voice Of Their Brothers' Blood.

The Problem Of Suffering Is: Why Is There The Suffering We Know?

To Try To Fashion Something From Suffering, To Relish Our Triumphs, And To Endure Defeats Without Resentment: All That Is Compatible With The Faith Of A Heretic.