“That is why, at the end of all things, when the sun rises here and the twilight turns to blackness down there, the Blessed will say, “we have never lived anywhere except in heaven,’ and the Lost, “We were always in Hell.” And both will speak truly.”
“People, shadows, good, bad, Heaven, Hell: all of these were names, labels, that was all. Humans had created these opposites: Nature recognized no opposites. Even life and death weren’t opposites in Nature: one was merely an extension of the other.”
“When the war is over, Hitler will be dead,
He hopes to go to Heaven with a halo on his head,
But the Lord said no,
You’ll have to go below,
There’s only room for Churchill,
So cheery-cheery oh!”