It is one thing to describe an interview with a gorgon or a griffin, a creature who does not exist. It is another thing to discover that the rhinoceros does exist and then take pleasure in the fact that he looks as if he didn't.

children are simply human beings who are allowed to do what everyone else really desires to do, as for instance, to fly kites, or when seriously wronged to emit prolonged screams for several minutes.

We are learning to do a great many clever things. The next great task will be to learn not to do them.

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

It is always the secure who are humble.

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

We actually love ourselves more than we love joy.