He pares his apple that will cleanly feed.
Personally, I don't believe in anything more supernatural than what you read about in the Bible, and I only believe that one day out of seven.
This would have been less annoying had it been untrue.
We spent a lot of time discussing cosmology first. I think that was your father's unique way of evaluating people. You can tell a lot about a person, he once said, by the way they look at the stars.
To fire a bullet into the heart or brains of one's fellow man even a fellow man striving to do the same to you creates what might be called an unassimilable memory: a memory that floats on daily life the way an oil stain floats on rainwater. Stir the rain barrel, scatter the oil into countless drops, disperse it all you like, but it will not mix; and eventually the slick comes back, as loathsomely intact as it ever was.
Goddamn you," Jacob said. "There's no damnation, Jacob. No Heaven but the forest and no God but the hive.
Along with a dozen other students I had dissected a human cadaver and sorted its contents by size, color, function, and weight. There was nothing pleasant about the experience. Its only consolation was its truth and its only virtue was its utility.
I can record auditions from my office in my home
The thief and the murderer follow nature just as much as the philanthropist.
If we don't believe in the Devil, we won't be able to recognize him when he suddenly shows up.
There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it.