If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.

I'd always somehow felt slightly as if I'd been born in the wrong country.

To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off

Arguments that explain everything... explain nothing

The quality you most admire in a woman? Courage moral and physical: "anima"-the ability to visualize the mind and need of a man. Also a sense of the absurd.

I am a person of faith: I am a person who will believe practically anything on no evidence at all.

I retain what's interesting to me, but I don't have a lot of strategic depth.