Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.

The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.

Islam was something like a Christian heresy. The early heresies had been full of mad reversals and evasions of the Incarnation, rescuing their Jesus from the reality of his body even at the expense of the sincerity of his soul.

Either criticism is no good at all (a very defensible position) or else criticism means saying about an author the very things that would have made him jump out of his boots.

All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.

In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own?

We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.