A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional...values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process

I prefer being honest to being 'honest to God.'

Free will, though it makes evil possible, also makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.

We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got nothing that I hadn't bargained for. Of course it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination.

We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us.

I hope no one who reads this book has been quite as miserable as Susan and Lucy were that night; but if you have been - if you've been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left in you - you will know that there comes in the end a sort of quietness. You feel as if nothing is ever going to happen again.

Only He who really lived a human life (and I presume that only one did) can fully taste the horror of death.