Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.

I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.

...I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it again.

It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.

It is hard to make your adversaries real people unless you recognize yourself in them - in which case, if you don't watch out, they cease to be adversaries.

Dogma is the guardian of mystery. The doctrines are spiritually significant in ways that we cannot fathom.

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