Book: Night in lonesome October

... Around continued to rage plaster vortices. Everything that could fall, lying on the floor. I even started to get used to these lightning, thunder and intermittent shudders of the house's business as usual. I think if you spend some time in such obstanovochka, one day all will cease to notice the constant crashing.

He was a good man. <...> He was not indifferent to human fate, the fate of the world. Well, as it is called in humans is compassion! He too was strongly developed sense of compassion. I think that's why he drank so much. He experienced within himself the suffering of others.

If you have a pure heart, you're safe.

Some gods are good to achieve certain ideals, not for real purposes, here and now.

After all, such power can be used with much greater benefit, unless it is another manifestation of the so-called divine incomprehensibility, which, in my opinion, a more suitable definition of "childish".

I remembered about the Ancient gods, and wonder how this will change the world if they open the gates. World and without divine intervention can be very beautiful, and can be nasty to disgust; we have learned to cope with the existing order of things, has developed its categories of good and evil. Some gods are better to go with the soul, rather than look for them in the flesh.