There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world -- its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles. The more you understand, the more you look, the greater is your enjoyment of life and your sense of peace. That's all there is to it. Everything else is fun and games. If an activity is not grounded in "to love" or "to learn" it does not have value.

I wish we had more visible Christian and Catholic leaders who talked about love.

And I realized that I’d tolerated him this long because of self-doubt.

Perhaps this is the only real evil left.

What is written beneath this heavy handsome book cover will count, so sayeth this cover.

We are predators, whose all-seeing eyes were meant to give them detachment.

... what I fear in writing is the safe decision.