In America, where the electoral process is drowning in commercial techniques of fund-raising and image-making, we may have completed a circle back to a selection process as unconcerned with qualifications as that which made Darius King of Persia. ... he whose horse was the first to neigh at sunrise should be King.

bureaucracy, safely repeating today what it did yesterday, rolls on as ineluctably as some vast computer, which, once penetrated by error, duplicates it forever.

Christianity in its ideas was never the art of the possible.

Completeness is rare in history.

Books are the carriers of civilization... Books are humanity in print.

Theology being the work of males, original sin was traced to the female.

An essential element for good writing is a good ear: One must listen to the sound of one's own prose.