Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.

Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.

All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.

Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God's chosen.

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.