Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

If we must play the theological game, let us never forget that it is a game. Religion, it seems to me, can survive only as a consciously accepted system of make-believe.

Pageantry is a visionary art which has been used, from time immemorial, as a political instrument.

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.