If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.

For the past twenty years you and I have been fed all day long on good solid lies about sex

Hell begins with a grumbling mood, always complaining, always blaming others.

When humans should have become as perfect in voluntary obedience as the inanimate creation is in its lifeless obedience, then they will put on its glory, or rather that greater glory of which Nature is only the first sketch.

Human intellect is incurably abstract.

I felt in my bones that this universe does not explain itself.

We must get over wanting to be needed-this is the hardest of all temptations to resist