The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.

I have come to believe that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.

Most believe that a satisfactory future requires a return to an idealized past, a past which never in fact existed.

the meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead

The successful writer listens to himself.

I never thought it would be easy to serve God," she said. "I just didn't think it would be this hard.

A popular man arouses the jealousy of the powerful.