The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.

The whole difficulty of understanding Hell is that the thing to be understood is so nearly nothing.

Music. A meaningless acceleration in the rhythm of celestial experience.

If you haven't met Satan recently, you are probably going his way!

I sometimes pray not for self-knowledge in general but for just so much self knowledge at the moment as I can bear and use at the moment; the little daily dose.

The worst of sleeping out of doors is that you wake up so dreadfully early. And when you wake up you have to get up because the ground is so hard you are uncomfortable. And it makes matters worse if there is nothing but apples for breakfast and you have had nothing but apples for supper the night before.

Love, in its own nature, demands the perfecting of the beloved.