Intellectuals ... regard over-simplification as the original sin of the mind and have no use for the slogans, the unqualified assertions and sweeping generalizations.

Grace is always sufficient, provided we are ready to cooperate with it.

The gods are just. No doubt. But their code of law is dictated, in the last resort, by the people who organize society; Providence takes its cue from men.

The Christian idea of a perfect heaven that is something other than a non-existence is a contradiction in terms.

Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you'd collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.

Can you say something about nothing?

...we were back at home, and I had returned to that reassuring but profoundly unsatisfactory state known as 'being in one's right mind.