I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striving to be a writer would be incredibly arrogant.
Yet creeds mean very little, Coth answered the dark god, still speaking almost gently. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
Actors have bodyguards and entourages not because anybody wants to hurt them - who would want to hurt an actor? - but because they want to get recognized. God forbid someone doesn't recognize them.
Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.
Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.
My nephews all look at me differently now. Before, they couldn't relate to me, and now I'm like a god.
And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.
An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.
To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.
God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.
God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.
Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
Let every man be true and every god a liar.