Art and psychoanalysis give shape and meaning to life and that is why we adore them, but life as it is lived has no shape and meaning.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

... when caught unawares I usually tell the truth, and what's duller than that?

In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.

The cry of equality pulls everyone down.

There is a spider called Amaurobius, which lives in a burrow and has its young in the late summer, and then it dies when the frosts begin, and the young spiders live through the cold by eating their mother's dead body. One can't believe that's an accident. I don't know that I imagined God as having thought it all out, but somehow He was connected with the pattern, He was the pattern.

Real worship involves waiting.