The true Christian's nostril is to be continually attentive to the inner cesspool.

I think He made one law of that kind in order that there might be obedience. In all these other matters what you call obeying Him is but doing what seems good in your own eyes also. Is love content with that?

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.

Oh, I can see it happening, age after age, and growing worse the more you reveal your beauty: the son turning his back on the mother and the bride on her groom, stolen away by this everlasting calling, calling, calling of the gods. Taken where we can't follow. It would be far better for us if you were foul and ravening. We'd rather you drank their blood than stole their hearts. We'd rather they were ours and dead than yours and made immortal.

A sick society must think much about politics, as a sick man must think much about his digestion.

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

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.