The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations.

One should go easy on smashing other people's lies. Better to concentrate on one's own.

evil soon makes tools out of those who don't hate it.

... a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people.

We are all the judges and the judged, victims of the casual malice and fantasy of others, and ready sources of fantasy and malice in our turn. And if we are sometimes accused of sins of which we are innocent, are there not also other sins of which we are guilty and of which the world knows nothing?