What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.

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

To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

... Simone Weil is a mystery that should keep us all humble, and I need it more than most. Also she's the example of the religious consciousness without a religion which maybe sooner or later I will be able to write about.

Your beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see and they will not be a substitute for seeing.

I write any sort of rubbish which will cover the main outlines of the story, then I can begin to see it.