Well, if it's a symbol, to hell with it.

I come from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation. In some this tendency produces hives, in others literature, in me both.

When there is a tendency to compartmentalize the spiritual and make it resident in a certain type of life only, the spiritual is apt gradually to be lost.

The black sky was underpinned with long silver streaks that looked like scaffolding and depth on depth behind it were thousands of stars that all seemed to be moving very slowly as if they were about some vast construction work that involved the whole universe and would take all time to complete. No one was paying attention to the sky.

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

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

Conviction without experience makes for harshness.