"I was in a convent for a year."

“No matter how reclusive we tend to be, we picture the after-life as a community of souls. It is one thing to seek privacy in this life; it is another to face eternity alone.”

“Sometimes string figures were used to illustrate stories, as in the case of an Eskimo example that depicts a man catching a salmon. Sometimes they had magic or religious significance.”

“Life itself is pretty funny when you realize how absurd it can be.”

Source : "EXCLUSIVE: Ray Stevenson Plans to Pummel You with Punisher: War Zone: The DVD!". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. March 16, 2009.

“All pictures that's painted with sense and with thought / Are painted by madmen as sure as a groat; / For the greater the fool in the pencil more blest, / And when they are drunk they always paint best.”

“The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace... a representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness.”

“About 40 years ago I had an experience where I wrote a tract.”

“When Fortuna spins you downward, go out to a movie and get more out of life.”

Source : John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.82, LSU Press

“As much wrong as I did in life and as many people as I hurt, I can say that God never stopped talking to me. I just stopped listening.”

Source : Sam Childers (2009). “Another Man's War: The True Story of One Man's Battle to Save Children in the Sudan”, p.35, Thomas Nelson Inc