To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.

Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing.

The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.

I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.

Kill one man, and you are murderer.

Hatred, for the man who is not engaged in it, is a little like the odor of garlic for one who hasn't eaten any.

Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.