Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich, that is, for all mankind except the poor.

A society in which conjugal infidelity is tolerated must always be in the long run a society adverse to women.

For in grief nothing "stays put." One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. Everything repeats. Am I going in circles, or dare I hope I am on a spiral? But if a spiral, am I going up or down it? How often -- will it be for always? -- how often will the vast emptiness astonish me like a complete novelty and make me say, "I never realized my loss till this moment"? The same leg is cut off time after time.

I fancy that most people who think at all have done a great deal of their thinking in the first fourteen years.

Forgive us as we forgive- we are offered forgiveness on no other terms. To refuse it is to refuse Gods mercy for ourselves.

The bolt of Tash falls from above!' 'Does it ever get caught on a hook halfway?

The moment good taste knows itself, some of its goodness is lost.