Quotes from Fynn

The sun is nice but it lights things up so much that you can't see very far... The night time is better. It stretches your soul to the stars.

And God said love me, love them, and love it, and don't forget to love yourself.

Love everybody like you love yourself, and you've got to be full up with you to love yourself properly first.

The tricky bit was looking inside yourself to see what bits of the works were missing. Once you'd overcome that hurdle the rest was fairly simple.

Mister God can know things and people from the inside too. We only know them from the outside, don't we? So you see, Fynn, people can't talk about Mister God from the outside; you can only talk about Mister God from the inside of him.

Why do we go to church, Fynn?" "To understand Mister God more." "Less." "Less what?" "To understand Mister God less." ................. "You go to church to make Mister God really, really, really big, then you really, really don't understand Mister God- then you do.

You don't have to want things outside you to fill up the gaps inside you. You don't leave bits of you hanging around on objects in shop-windows, in catalogues or on advertising hoardings. Wherever you go you take your whole self with you, you don't leave bits lying around to get stamped on, you're all of a piece

It isn't the Devil in humanity that makes man a lonely creature, it's his Godlikeness. It's the fullness of the Good that can't get out or can't find its proper 'other place' that makes for loneliness.

Fantasy was and is important; it leads to heaven knows where, but follow it and see. Sometimes it pays off.

And God said love me, love them, and love it, and don't forget to love yourself.

Dying could be a bit of a problem, but not if you had really lived. Dying needed a certain amount of preparation and the only preparation for dying was real living

My reason for preferring the darkness is that in the dark you have to describe yourself. In the daylight other people describe you. Do you understand that?

Humanity in general had an infinite number of points of view, whereas Mister God had an infinite number of viewing points.

My reason for preferring the darkness is that in the dark you have to describe yourself. In the daylight other people describe you.

in the dark you have to describe yourself. In the daylight other people describe you.

The sun is nice but it lights things up so much that you can't see very far... The night time is better. It stretches your soul to the stars.

If I was the only one I wouldn't be littler or bigger, would I? I'd be just me, wouldn't I?

The diffrense from a person and an angel is easy. Most of an angel is in the inside and most of a person is on the outside.

So very many times over the next three years i heard her laughter - no silver bells or sweet rippling sounds was her laughter, but like a five-year-old's bellow of delight, a cross between a puppy's yelp, a motor-bike and a bicycle pump.

I suppose that the human mind can only stand so much grief and anguish. After that the fuses blow.

The daylight schooled the senses and the night-time developed the wits, stretched the imagination, sharpened fantasy, hammered home the memory and altered the whole scale of values.

A fact was the hard outer cover of meaning, and meaning was the soft living stuff inside a fact. Fact and meaning were the driving cogs of living. If the gear of fact drove the gear of meaning, then they revolved in opposite directions, but put the gear of fantasy between the two and they both revolved in the same direction. Fantasy was and is important; it leads to heaven knows where, but follow it and see. Sometimes it pays off.

Letting your soul, or whatever fancy name you like to give it, out of its cage and into the daylight is perhaps the hardest thing anyone can do.

I was nineteen at the time, prowling the streets and alleys with my usual supply of hot dogs, the street lights with their foggy haloes showing dark, formless shapes moving out from the darkness of the fog and disappearing again.