Tomas Rodriguez

“Ask for an omen, then stone it when it comes -- de essentia hominum.”
― Walter M Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz

“It is not the pain that is pleasing to God, child. It is the soul's endurance in faith and hope and love in spite of bodily afflictions that pleases Heaven.”
― Walter Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz

“It never was any better, it never will be any better. It will only be richer or poorer, sadder but not wiser, until the very last day.”
― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz

“To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only ends, somehow, and the only basis of law—a perversion. Inevitably, then, in seeking only them, we found only their opposites: maximum suffering and minimum security.”
― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz