I have enough energy to write with and as that is all I have any business doing anyhow, I can with one eye squinted take it all as a blessing.

...the only thing that makes the Church endurable is that it is somehow the body of Christ and that on this we are fed. It seems to be a fact that you have to suffer as much from the Church as for it but if you believe in the divinity of Christ, you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it.

When you can state the theme of a story, when you can separate it from the story itself, then you can be sure the story is not a very good one.

Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing.

Total non-retention has kept my education from being a burden to me.

The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth.

Policy and politics generally go contrary to principle.