Book: American gods. Page 7

This country would be much better if people learned how to suffer in silence.

That is not a good country for gods. My people from the beginning have understood it. There are spirits of the creators who found the earth or made it, or crapped out, but think about it: who is going to worship coyote? He copulated with a female porcupine, and the member he had more needles than a pincushion. He tried to argue with rocks and the rocks won.
So. My people realized that there is something beneath all this, the great spirit, the Creator, and so we thank him - it is always good to say "thank you". But we never built churches. We do not need them. The land itself is the temple. The earth itself is a religion. The earth is older and wiser people who are on it. It gave us salmon and corn and Buffalo migratory pigeons. She gave us rice and cannabis. She gave us melons, pumpkins and a Turkey. And we were children of the earth just as the porcupine and the skunk and the blue Jay.

- And then comes the gray top and bite for a flank - sang an old woman.
- I will not survive this prophecy, One thought grimly.

When you die, you all begin to see more clearly. Like no one else. Know? You're like a huge, dense hole in the universe, and from this hole a silhouette of a man.

Hell, black and white manuscript images, font, true type Gothic. How many don't try, you don't become hypertext.

The house smelled of dust and damp and vaguely sweet, as if there dwelt the ghosts of long-dead cookies.

Not only happy endings don't exist, all do not exist.

I'll have time to get out before the storm. Away from the world, where opium has become the religion of the people.

It's okay if you have not believed. We believed in you.

They talk about ancient, but refuse to talk about the impossible. It is here that I really feel sorry for them, because as soon as something is declared impossible, it is absolutely beyond belief and eludes understanding, regardless of true or not.

Freedom to believe means the freedom to believe in right and wrong. Just as the freedom to speak gives you the right to remain silent.

The wisest way to start a life together with the young man is not to quarrel with his mother.

All your questions have an answer, if you want to know him. But once you know the answer, you will not be able to get rid of this knowledge.

Faith is based on feelings, which we perceive and comprehend the world in vision and hearing, touch and taste, and still in the memory. If they lie to us, then nothing can be trusted. And even if we don't believe, we still are unable to follow the path other than the one that they show us. On this road we have to go to the end.