Job: A Comedy of Justice

God created men to test the souls of women.

My only regret involved the sad knowledge that I could not handle the amount of alcohol I would have enjoyed. “Easy is the descent into Hell.

Anyone who can worship a trinity and insist that his religion is a monotheism can believe anything.

Samuel Clemens put it: "Where she was, there was Eden." Omar phrased it: "-thou beside me in the wilderness, ah wilderness were paradise enow." Browning termed it "Summum Bonum." All were asserting the same great truth, which is for me: Heaven is where Margrethe is.

noise is always a byproduct of inefficiency. A correctly designed engine is as silent as the grave.

Thy will be done –’ No Muslim claiming to be a ‘slave of God’ ever gave a more sweeping consent than that. In that prayer you invite Him to do His worst. The perfect masochist.

But plenty of money (how well I knew it!) made hard things easy and impossible things merely difficult.

I could not make him understand that Heaven was not Heaven to me without Margrethe

Satan, receive my soul; Jesus is a fink

I have long suspected that the male of our species, in most cases, should be raised in a barrel and fed through the bung-hole. Then, at age eighteen, a solemn decision can be made: whether to take him out of the barrel, or to drive in the bung.