The true word leads; the untrue misleads.

My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.

I wanted to escape the unrest, to shut out the voices around me and within me, so I write.

So then you’re free?’ ‘Yes, I’m free,’ said Karl, and nothing seemed more worthless than his freedom.

Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.

The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.