Child,' said the Lion, 'I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their own.

A sign of a culture that has lost its faith - Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.

The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and nursery-like belief in objective values, we perish.

I'd sooner live among people who don't cheat at cards than among people who are earnest about not cheating at cards.

Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- to be sucked back -- into it?

I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process.

I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state, but a process. It needs not a map, but a history, and if I don't stop writing that history at some quite arbitrary point, there's no reason why I should ever stop.