Dagon

The trouble was, you know, not that I didn't have courage to come to life, but that I didn't have courage to be truly dead.

Suffering is simply one means of carving a design upon an area of time, of charging with human meaning each separate moment of time. Suffering is the most expensive of human feelings, but it is the most intense and most precious of them, because suffering most efficiently humanizes the unfeeling universe.

I'm not so sure you ought yo come to church to be entertained, he said.
Wow. You can say that again.
Maybe you should come with a reasonable hope for edification.
She peeped at him tartly. Do you know waht hell is? It's edification without entertainment.