The Expulsion from Paradise is eternal in its principal aspect: this makes it irrevocable, and our living in this world inevitable, but the eternal nature of the process has the effect that not only could we remain forever in Paradise, but that we are currently there, whether we know it or not.

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

If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.

Love has as few problems as a motor car. The only problems are the driver, the passengers, and the road.

I never wish to be easily defined.

I want in fact more of you. In my mind I am dressing you with light; I am wrapping you up in blankets of complete acceptance and then I give myself to you. I long for you; I who usually long without longing, as though I am unconscious and absorbed in neutrality and apathy, really, utterly long for every bit of you.

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.