Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.
Faith means believing the unbelievable.
somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
Thinking means connecting things, and stops if they cannot be connected.
We're all in the same boat, and we're all seasick.
Every great literature has always been allegorical - allegorical of some view of the whole universe. The 'Iliad' is only great because all life is a battle, the 'Odyssey' because all life is a journey, the Book of Job because all life is a riddle.