We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent.

Man depends on God for all things: God depends on man for one. Without man's love God does not exist as God, only as creator, and love is the one thing no one, not even God himself, can command. It is a free gift or it is nothing. And it is most itself, most free, when it is offered in spite of suffering, of injustice, and of death . . . The justification of the injustice of the universe is not our blind acceptance of God's inexplicable will, nor our trust in God's love, his dark and incomprehensible love, for us, but our human love, notwithstanding anything, for him.

What once was cuddled must learn to kiss The cold wonn's mouth. That's all the mystery.

What is more important in a library than anything else-than everything else-is the fact that it exists.

Never in all their history have men been able truly to conceive of the world as one: a single sphere, a globe, having the qualities of a globe, a round earth in which all the directions eventually meet, in which there is no center because every point, or none, is center - an equal earth which all men occupy as equals. The airman's earth, if free men make it, will be truly round: a globe in practice, not in theory.

Young poets are advised by their elders to avoid the practice of journalism as they would wet socks and gin before breakfast.

The infantile cowardice of our time which demands an external pattern, a nonhuman authority.