We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.

One reads in order to ask questions

The state we find ourselves in is sinful quite independent of guilt.

You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.

They did not know what we can now guess at, contemplating the course of history: that change begins in the soul before it appears in ordinary existence.

One of the most effective means of seduction that Evil has is the challenge to struggle. It is like the struggle with women, whichends in bed. A married man's true deviations from the path of virtue are, rightly understood, never gay.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.