History ... isn't simply what has happened. It's a judgment on what has happened.
We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
Paradise is only for those who have already been there.
Godlessness invariably produces vulgarity. Civilization is the product of belief.
Comedy springs from the ludicrous; but the ludicrous is stuck in the muck of reality, resolutely hostile to what is impossible.
Life is that which - pressingly, persistently, unfailingly, imperially - interrupts.