Quotes from Sam Torode

I left the room in a daze, wondering if this was all real-or if I'd finally gone insane from whacking the weasel.

I assure you I'm quite harmless," he said. "Unless prodded, provoked, or otherwise perturbed." + + +

So if Adam and Eve are the parents of the whole human race, where did Cain's wife come from? After

a square dance might start innocent, but it sure don't take long to cut off the corners.

If the evangelist was right, this life was nothing more than a waiting room for the next. The only thing on earth that mattered was placing your reservation for eternity.

Bing Crosby and those fellows promised to love deeper than the ocean and higher than the stars for eternity. But who can sustain that kind of emotion for a month, or a year--much less forever? The song ends, the feeling fades, and they're onto the next pretty girl.

Well, a square dance might start innocent, but it sure don't take long to cut off the corners." Father

Why, you're a ghost," he said, "and so am I. We're spirits haunting these bodies of flesh and blood, just as spooks haunt houses of wood and stone." "You believe in haunted houses?" "All houses," he said, "wherein men have lived and died, are haunted houses.

Society always tries to enslave, imprison, and execute its greatest men, those who dare to stand apart and rise above.

A child is like an unruly tree—in order to grow up straight, he must be pruned. 'Raise up a child in the way he should go, and he will not depart from it.'" I

Well, imagine a movie—a vast production with kings, fools, knights, ladies, peasants, preachers, prostitutes—every sort of person you find in the world. When the actors take off their costumes, they're all equal. So it is with life. When death strips us of our roles, we're all equals in the grave.

the point is, every woman is a vessel of beauty, life, and love—though most don't know it. And all the forces of evil in the world are dead-set against her. That's why loving a woman is the hardest battle you'll ever face. Love isn't going to fall

Everyone scoffs at a pioneer. Did you ever stop to consider the person who first discovered milk? It took a lot of nerve to be the first man to pull on a cow's nipple and drink whatever came out. You can bet his friends never let him live that down. And yet, a million years later, nobody thinks anything of drinking cow juice.

You must enter the Forest Adventurous at its darkest point, where there is no path. Where there's a path, it is someone else's path. Each human being is a unique phenomenon. The idea is to find your own pathway to bliss.

bleak stretch between January and March when old folks lose the will to live.

It took me a minute to figure out that Colored didn't mean red and blue toilets. In Remus, nobody was scared to use the same john as a black man. I knew from experience: white shit doesn't look any different from colored. Remus

Some people put more effort and money into the wedding day than they do into the marriage itself, then it's all downhill from there.

But the wasteland of Illinois had driven me to Scripture reading.

My pecker's a poet." "How's that?" "He's a longfellow.

While men tend to think in abstractions—rules, principles, information, definitions—women tend to see the world in terms of relationships. Where men tend to define, distinguish, and divide, women often seek to bring unity and healing. Head and heart, reason and emotion, masculine and femininity—these are all complementary aspects of humanity. A tragedy of history is that, so often, the male voice has drowned out the female voice altogether.