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

for most of us the space between 'dreaming on things to come' and 'it is too late, it is all over' is too tiny to enter.

Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.

Of course men play roles, but women play roles too, blanker ones. They have, in the play of life, fewer good lines.

Food is a profound subject and one, incidentally, about which no writer lies.

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.

Real misery cuts off all paths to itself.