There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat when he yawns in the face of his amorously importunate wife.

It's a very salutary thing to realize that the rather dull universe in which most of us spend most of our time is not the only universe there is. I think it's healthy that people should have this experience.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

Universal education has created an immense class of what I may call the New Stupid, hungering for certainty yet unable to find it in the traditional myths and their rationalizations.

To travel is to discover that everybody is wrong. The philosophies, the civilizations which seem, at a distance, so superior to those current at home, all prove on a close inspection to be in their own way just as hopelessly imperfect.

Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.