God is not necessary to create culpability, or to punish. Our fellow men are enough for that, helped by ourselves.

More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.

At the age of 40, having ordered meat very rare in restaurants all his life, he realized he actually liked it medium and not at all rare.

There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.

Their guilt made me eloquent because I was not its victim.