We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now by philosophers, can once again be made central.

There is no triumph of good, and if there were it would not be a triumph of good.

I have used the word "attention," which I borrow from Simone Weil, to express the idea of a just and loving gaze directed upon individual reality. I believe this to be the characteristic and proper mark of the active moral agent.

Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.

The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.

It's easier to sell junk when you're known than works of genius when you're unknown.

The notion that one can liberate another soul from captivity is an illusion of the very young.