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

No art is sunk in the self, but rather, in art the self becomes self-forgetful in order to meet the demands of the thing seen and the thing being made.

I don't think you should write something as long as a novel around anything that is not of the gravest concern to you and everybody else and for me this is always the conflict between an attraction for the Holy and the disbelief in it that we breathe in with the air of the times.

Right now the whole world seems to be going through a dark night of the soul.

Everything that gave her pleasure was small and depressed him.

Faith has to take in all the other possibilities it can.

Doctors always think anybody doing something they aren't is a quack; also they think all patients are idiots.