Another Note from the Tilt-A-Whirl

by Sep 16, 2009Books

This book is just full of bons mots:

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The Greeks were right. Live in fear of a grinding end and a dank hereafter. Unless you know a bigger God, or better yet, are related to Him by blood.

—N. D. Wilson, Notes from the Tilt-A-Whirl

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